How One Woman Became the Scapegoat for America’s Reading Crisis
Lucy Calkins was an education superstar. Now she’s cast as the reason a generation of students struggles to read. Can she ...
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A Joyful Alternative to Deadening Drills
Noah Webster believed in phonics, Horace Mann in the word method. In the late 1920s, as progressive education became an influential movement, schools began to switch from phonics to whole-word ...
Science of reading: Ohio schools changing approach to teaching literacy this year
They became convinced the science of reading, which emphasizes phonics and vocabulary, is superior to the decades-long ...