One of the giants of the literacy world is grappling with the recent push for the “science of reading"—and responding to critics who say her early reading program doesn’t align to evidence-based ...

After a contentious debate that spanned two meetings, the Harford County Board of Education approved the purchase of additional reading instruction materials and classroom library books at its Monday ...

Empowering schools to establish and nurture a culture of powerful reading and writing is difficult, but can be transformative for students. How do you best support administrators and teachers and make ...

Two Massachusetts families allege in a new lawsuit that a trio of famed literacy authors, including Columbia University’s Lucy Calkins, knowingly sold defective early literacy curriculums to their ...

First grade students in Mrs. Griffin’s class at Johnson Elementary School in Spencer are learning the fundamentals of writing through Lucy Calkin’s Writing Workshop. Students learn to collaborate with ...

In the raging debate over how U.S. schools teach children to read, few figures have been as controversial yet lionized as Lucy Calkins, the literacy guru and curriculum entrepreneur. For four decades, ...

The once-revered Columbia University program behind a flawed literacy curriculum used in New York City schools will be “dissolved,” the university announced. The Teachers College Reading and Writing ...

Phonics works. It teaches children to sound out words simply and efficiently. The problem with it? Nothing, except “educators” always think there’s some better way to do things. That was Lucy Calkins ...

The Harford County Board of Education tabled a decision on whether to expand the Units of Study middle school writing curriculum until a later date at its meeting Monday night. The school system first ...