A recent New York Times article threatens to revive longstanding misconceptions about phonics. Teaching children to sound out words in a way that’s backed by science shouldn’t carry political baggage.

WASHINGTON — Back in the 1980s, when Mary Pat Donoghue completed her bachelor’s degree in elementary education, “Units of Study for Teaching Reading” was a popular new program that celebrated children ...

A third-grader works through a phonics lesson in Washington, Ill. Editor at Large As a teacher in Oakland, Calif., Kareem Weaver helped struggling fourth- and fifth-grade kids learn to read by using a ...

In short: All Victorian state schools will use phonics to teach reading from 2025. The government says teachers will spend a minimum of 25 minutes a day on "explicit teaching" of phonics and phonemic ...

A new scientific study that aims to end the so-called reading wars has found that phonics is an essential foundation in the early stages of learning to read, but it is only part of the approach. The ...

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Reading phonics and cursive writing make a return to the the teaching curriculum in a what’s-old-is-new-again development. The mind-bending potential of AI to impact education, for better or worse, ...

How can there be such high profile disagreement about an issue as extensively researched and important as the teaching of reading to young children? In July, a group of teachers and phonics ...