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 ...

Description: Hooked on Phonics is an Android app that’s from the same people behind well, Hooked on Phonics. The team that started back in the late-eighties now has excellent mobile apps for both ...

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 ...

The company that owns the frequently advertised Sylvan tutoring centers is buying another as-seen-on-TV name: Hooked on Phonics. Educate Inc., Sylvan Learning Center’s parent, said yesterday that it ...

Wisconsin, USA / April 27, 2014 / Among a growing cluster of phonic programs swarming the marketplace, one program stands out from rest of the crowd. “Hooked on Phonics” is no ordinary off-the-shelf ...

Americans are used to being inundated with slick commercials for beer, fast food and cars, so it was probably just a matter of time until a company like Gateway Educational Products tried the approach ...

Chip Paucek?s entrepreneurial spirit grew, of all places, in his basement. About 15 years ago, Paucek co-founded Cerebellum Corp., a company that produced "Standard Deviants," a successful PBS ...

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 ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- New York City is changing the way it teaches reading, getting children hooked on phonics, after Schools Chancellor David Banks concluded public schools have been teaching ...

In work that may one day narrow the gap between speedy, voracious readers and slower, disinterested ones, researchers at New York University (N.Y.U.) have determined that three different mechanisms ...