A report from the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation takes a swipe at the whole-language movement for promoting reading materials and teaching methods the author says are of questionable value. Whole ...

The battleground of the reading wars is a contentious and scary place. This war has been ongoing for a century, with either side gaining and losing ground as the educational pendulum swings back and ...

The chancellor of New York City Schools, David C. Banks, announced a dramatic overhaul of the city’s reading curricula on Tuesday. He admitted that the current system, which is based on progressive ...

Kenneth Goodman is not known for his silence. The professor emeritus at the University of Arizona, popularly known as the father of the “whole language” method of teaching reading, has been wont to ...

To the editor: Your editorial on reforming reading instruction highlighted what a disaster “whole language” has been for literacy in our public schools. This movement decades ago to step away from ...

Move over "Dick and Jane." A different approach to teaching kids how to read is on the rise. For decades, two schools of thought have clashed on how to best teach children to read, with passionate ...

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Gov. Mike DeWine has announced that his upcoming two-year budget will include $162 million for public and charter schools which employ "science based" curricula to teach reading, using phonics. "The ...

Even though it’s the dog days of summer vacation, many schools across the country are getting ready to bring students back into the classroom — and that means giving serious thought to the best ways ...

Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, No. 156 (Spring, 2003), pp. 43-62 (20 pages) The purpose of this study was to explore ways to integrate music instruction with the classroom ...