Danbury, CT, Sept. 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hooked on Phonics today launched "Where Will Words Take You?", a new back-to-school campaign focused on the possibilities that begin when children learn ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This quick-witted grade-schooler stashes a dictionary under her pillow, uses words like “preposterous” and “melodramatic” and quotes German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. That might signal a free ...

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 ...

When a Wilmington kindergarten teacher suggested, in a Star-News "Ask the Teacher" column, that a phonics system advertised on television might not be the best gift for an eager kindergarten student, ...

Regarding the March 12 editorial “Yes, U.S. children should be hooked on phonics”: I am a volunteer with Reading Partners, tutoring children at elementary schools in D.C. to bring them to grade-level ...

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 ...

For nearly 40 years, Hooked on Phonics has helped millions of children build strong reading skills through research-based phonics instruction, interactive learning, and engaging stories. Where will ...