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About The Phonics Institute
The Phonics Institute is a trade name of its director, Edward
Haskins Jacobs. Mr. Jacobs was born in Chicago in 1951. He was
graduated in 1972 from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester,
Massachusetts, with an A.B., cum laude, in physics. In college he
studied special topics in education and educational psychology, as
well as an introduction to psychology and social psychology. He was
graduated from The Law School of the University of Chicago in 1975 and
has actively practiced law for over twenty-five years as a bond
counsel, prosecutor, general practitioner, construction and labor
lawyer, and trial lawyer. In 1990, his elder child switched from a
phonics-based Montessori program to a whole language reading program
and started guessing as a "reading strategy." After a couple of years,
he figured out what was going on and began a study of reading
instruction. He began The Phonics Institute in 1992. For a few years
he was a trustee of St. Joseph High School, and at one time he headed
the board of trustees of Camp Arawak, a skills training program for
at-risk youth. In 1998 he obtained a masters degree in education at
the University of the Virgin Islands. He is licensed by the Virgin
Islands as an attorney and as an educational consultant.
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