Though pendulum swings between phonics- or basic-skills-focused instruction and meaning-focused instruction have been ongoing for decades, this round of debates has set up a new straw man ...

Rather than address the ways that her programs fail to align with decades of reading research, she has again propped up a straw man version of her critics. Dr. Calkins claims that “some phonics ...

In a post on her blog, Snow called Calkins’ concern about overemphasis on phonics a straw man argument. No one on “the science of reading side of the debate” would argue for phonics-only ...

Yet the authors of the letter to the editor choose to focus on the age-old strawman argument that this is solely about phonics. They not only dismiss us, they blame us for creating a pretend war ...

The new bill, AB 1121, would mandate the method of the "science of learning" which is a phonics-based teaching method. While teacher unions across the state have pushed back on similar bills ...

You use the fundamental skill every day. Fort Worth ISD students, however, are not receiving enough instruction to master phonics, district officials said. As part of a wide-sweeping district ...