A lovely aphorism holds that education isn’t the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. But too often, neither are pails filled nor fires lit. One of the most bearish statistics for the future ...

Melvine Groves, inspired by her years of being an educator and her desire to get youngsters ready for reading, shares a "Workbook for Basic Phonics" (published by Xlibris). This book gives added ...

Why aren’t our third-grade students able to read? I’ve been asked this question many times by constituents, and as an elementary school teacher I believe the answer may be as simple as one-word ...

In her June 22, 2005 letter to the editor, “Seeing Journalistic Bias in Reading Coverage,” Marsha Kessler accuses Education Week of being “anti-phonics.” It is not clear to me what exactly she means ...

Why is this country in the middle of still another angry fight over how to teach reading in the schools? The issue should have been settled years ago when stacks of research showed conclusively that a ...

From the very beginning, children need to train their brains to recognize English sounds. If they do not recognize the sound, they won't hear what they need to. “As you read a book word by word and ...

A good many public figures maintain that the way to raise reading scores is to require that all children learn reading by the method known as “phonics.” ‘He had frogtank where he had hidden it,” reads ...