How One Woman Became the Scapegoat for America’s Reading Crisis
Lucy Calkins was an education superstar. Now she’s cast as the reason a generation of students struggles to read. Can she ...
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Most NYC Schools Are Choosing A Literacy Curriculum That Falls Short
One of the most charismatic—and polarizing—leaders of the balanced literacy movement, Lucy Calkins, is based at Columbia Teachers College. A 2019 survey showed that at least 48% of elementary ...
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Berkeley schools use a discredited reading curriculum. Why is it still in classrooms?
And though the suit settled in 2021, the district’s method of teaching reading, a balanced literacy curriculum developed by Columbia University Teachers College professor Lucy Calkins called Units of ...
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Winchester Public Schools will hire outside evaluator to review its early literacy instruction
The creator of the curriculum, Lucy Calkins, told The New York Times in 2022 that she erred in placing an emphasis on visual cues for solving unknown words. Columbia University Teachers College ...
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What Michigan parents need to know about the ‘science of reading’
The only way would be by looking at the pictures.” The mother and former elementary school teacher said she found out her daughter’s Troy School District class was using the Lucy Calkins approach to ...