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For the 2023-24 school year — which officially starts Wednesday — Reading Language Arts curricula will add a phonics-based approach. It replaces the whole-language approach, a method districts across ...

New York needs to get back to the basics when it comes to teaching kids how to read, Gov. Kathy Hochul says. The Governor announced Wednesday that she wants to ditch the trendy “whole language” method ...

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 ...

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 ...

I think all Iowa schools should return to teaching reading by the time-tested phonics method. For the past few decades the erroneous “whole language” method to teach reading has held sway in Iowa and ...