Changes to the reading curriculum are headed to schools in New York State, as the Board of Regents has decided phonics, the approach to learning to read by spelling things ...
A lawsuit filed by a pair of Massachusetts families is adding to the backlash against an approach to reading instruction that some schools still use despite evidence that it's not the most effective.
Those prominent literacy specialists—education professors Lucy Calkins, and Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell, and the publishers of their curricula—inaccurately billed their programs as research-based ...