WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- The warring factions in the phonics vs. whole-language debate need to stop arguing and work together, says the dean of Purdue University's School of Education. "The debate is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sandra Stosky, professor of education at the University of Arkansas, wrote an op-ed column published in the Review-Journal on April 5 headlined, "Reading teachers should pass a reading test." I was ...