Phonics, once called phonetics ... and a broadening of public state and city universities’ credentialing programs in science of reading instruction. State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa ...
Nancy Ichinaga, the principal of an elementary school in the Los Angeles area that uses a phonics-based reading program, told me, "It's like learning a code; we like learning a secret code.
Those prominent literacy specialists—education professors Lucy Calkins, and Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell, and the publishers of their curricula—inaccurately billed their programs as research-based ...