Podcast titled “Phonics Part 1” from Adrienne Freas’ classical education website Beautiful Teaching, with interview released April 5, 2024, of 2 SWR trainers endorsed by author Wanda Sanseri. Trainers Niki Wise & Rhonda Bedee are also found at SWR publisher Becky’s Bouquet website SWR Forum & Resource Center.

Article titled “In the Fight Over How to Teach Reading, This Guru Makes a Major Retreat” - originally published by NYT May 22, 2022, by Dana Goldstein as She Helped Transform Reading Lessons. Now She’s Backtracking.

This podcast series, more than any other we’ve heard, shows how the literacy pendulum moved mightily toward strong phonics again in America in the pandemic aftermath. The highly acclaimed podcast series of 9 sections by education research reporters Emily Hanford and Christopher Peak is issued via American Public Media. The focus is primarily on teaching reading in American schools and the vast awakening wave toward phonics with direct instruction rather than whole word methods that has occurred in the early 2020s.