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 makers of the popular reading education program, Hooked on Phonics, were fined today by the Federal Trade Commission for renting private consumer information, including information about ...

Hooked on Phonics now has more than 100 comprehensive learning kits for reading, math, language and other subjects. "The best part of my job is we?re teaching kids how to read," Paucek said.