That’s the animating question behind a lawsuit filed by two mothers Wednesday in Massachusetts Superior Court against Lucy Calkins (renowned for “Units of Study”), Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell (of ...

Despite the curriculum’s aim “to prepare students for any reading and writing task they will face and to turn kids into ...

“teaching Lucy” has fallen out of fashion. Calkins’s critics say that her refusal to acknowledge the importance of phonics has tainted not just Units of Study—a reading and writing program ...

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 ...