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 ...

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 makers of the popular reading education program Hooked on Phonics were fined Wednesday by the Federal Trade Commission for sharing private consumer information -- including information about ...

BALTIMORE, Dec. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Hooked on Phonics, maker of award-winning educational tools to help parents teach their children to read, plans to donate 15,000 of its Learn to Read ...

The Gateway Learning Corporation settles a government suit related to its selling customer information to telemarketers. Gateway, the producer of the Hooked on Phonics series, disclosed customers' ...

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 ...

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 ...