Simply put, they battled over phonics, the 17th-century system of sounding out letters and words. The reading technique fell out of favor in most American schools in the 1980s, but now it’s ...

British schools minister Nick Gibb is urging Australia to embrace phonics as part of a national strategy to help children read, saying evidence from around the world shows it's the most effective ...

Synthetic phonics teaches students to understand the sounds letters represent and to combine them to form words. (ABC News: Brendan Esposito)South Australia was the first state to introduce a ...