How One Woman Became the Scapegoat for America’s Reading Crisis
Until a couple of years ago, Lucy Calkins was, to many American teachers and parents, a minor deity. Thousands of U.S.
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Ass't Superintendent Says That Scarsdale Schools Use a Range of Materials to Teach Reading
Despite the curriculum’s aim “to prepare students for any reading and writing task they will face and to turn kids into ...
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Lawsuit accuses famous literacy specialists of deceptive marketing
One of the parent plaintiffs, Karrie Conley, said in the lawsuit that due to her school district using Calkins’ Units of Study curriculum, she had to spend more on private school tuition and ...
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‘There Is No One-Size-Fits-All Approach to Reading Instruction’
Lewis’s article was a breath of fresh air. Calkins is by no means flawless, but her Units of Study remain some of the most comprehensive and useful language-arts curricula out there in a sea of ...
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Teachers deserve to be treated as professionals | Guest opinion
“A recent survey from the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce found that two of the most popular curricula statewide are Fountas and Pinnell’s Classroom and Lucy Calkins’ Units of ...