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 ...

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 ...