Tag: Calkins, Lucy

What to Know About the Science of Reading

During an era of intense politicization of education, there has been rare bipartisan consensus on one issue: the need to overhaul how children learn to read. Over the past five years, more than 40 states have passed laws that aim to revamp literacy instruction. And on Wednesday, Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York announced a […]

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Columbia to Dissolve Lucy Calkins’ Reading and Writing Project

In the urgent debate over how U.S. schools teach children to read, few figures have been as central as Lucy Calkins, the Columbia University professor and curriculum entrepreneur. For four decades, her organization, the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, and her widely purchased curriculum inspired passion among many educators. But there was also fierce […]

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