A first-of-its-kind lawsuit against three influential reading professors and their controversial literacy curricula has been dismissed, after a U.S. District Court declined to wade into the murky ...

Until a couple of years ago, Lucy Calkins was, to many American teachers and parents, a minor deity. Thousands of U.S. schools used her curriculum, called Units of Study, to teach children to read and ...

Thorny questions about research drive the reading wars: What makes a curriculum research-based? Who gets to decide? Those questions have never been settled in the K-12 education world, where teachers ...

I am writing in regard to Katie Guyer’s article, “Midland Public Schools: What snow pants and early literacy have in common” in the March 10 edition of the Daily News. In the photo that accompanies ...

In the December 2024 issue, Helen Lewis wrote about how one woman became the scapegoat for America’s literacy crisis. A heartfelt thank-you to Helen Lewis for her reporting on Lucy Calkins and the ...