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, ...

To the editor: Your editorial on reforming reading instruction highlighted what a disaster “whole language” has been for literacy in our public schools. This movement decades ago to step away from ...

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