It’s true there are parallels. The math “wars,” like the so-called reading wars, go back at least to the 1950s, when progressive educators rebelled against “traditionalists” who favored ...

Federal Education Minister Jason Clare has declared “the reading wars are over” – but what exactly are the reading wars? The “reading wars” refer to the debate among education insiders ...

a debate that has "occasionally grown so vicious it's been dubbed the Reading Wars," Vox reported. On one side are the proponents of the "science of reading" movement, a phonics- and cognitive ...

A whole language approach to teaching reading gives kids a whole linguistic picture of how words work. This includes teaching individual letters and sounds, as well as what the words mean in context.

Education Minister Jason Clare says he is close to securing a $16 billion-plus school funding agreement with the states that the government claims will end the reading wars by mandating phonics in ...