Everyone knows Hooked on Phonics. Since 1987 when the company was founded, more than two million families have turned to their award winning educational programs. Celebrity moms who are fans include ...

Tension: Parents want educational apps that actually work—but they’re overwhelmed by a flood of options with slick interfaces and shallow outcomes. Noise: App store reviews, gamified marketing, and ...

Since last fall, Brittany McGuire and Jackie Benson have written 35 books that teach phonics through comics. “We have a similar work style and work ethic,” McGuire said. “And it's hard to stop us once ...

Hooked on Phonics, a literacy and learning program, has undergone some major changes in the way it reaches consumers in the past 30 years. More recently the company has been focusing on digital ...

DANVILLE — As soon as reading specialist Ann Marie Cantore told the kindergarten students they were going to review the short i, they responded with “Itchy,” for Itchy the worm with a white fuzzball ...

Children need more than just food and shelter. They need books as well and Hooked on Phonics is ready to help. To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Hooked on Phonics launched HOP Across America, a ...

The education services company Educate Inc. has acquired the parent company of Hooked on Phonics, the controversial but popular literacy and math program advertised on television. The purchase ushers ...

Carole Ullemeyer's enthusiasm (letters, Dec. 21) for reading and libraries is strongly supported by research. Studies done over the last half-century confirm that children who do more self-selected ...

Mary Lee Griffin is an assistant professor of education at Wheaton College in Norton, Mass. How bad is this national reading crisis we keep hearing and reading about? Federal officials, citing the ...