There has been a longstanding discussion in the reading wars since the 1950s, when the novel “Why Johnny Can’t Read” ...

Not all children learn to read in the same way, but schools tend to adopt a single approach to literacy. luckyvector/iStock via Getty Images Plus Five years after the pandemic forced children into ...

The new schools chancellor in New York City is advocating teachers use the once-mandated citywide but now questioned (some would say “discredited”) approach to reading instruction known as “balanced ...

Even before the pandemic, national test scores showed that only a third of American students were proficient in reading, with widening gaps between good readers and struggling ones. At the end of our ...

From literacy, New Orleans after Katrina and special ed for all to freedom of speech and teachers who gave up, what our op-ed ...

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a group of Massachusetts parents who claimed their children were harmed by contested reading curricula designed by three prominent literacy experts.

Join us on April 26, 2018 at 2pm (EDT) for a discussion on implementing balanced literacy, led by Dr. Jill Marron, Professional Learning Specialist, and Kristin Trostel, Product Marketing Manager for ...

Lucy Calkins, an early advocate of balanced literacy, is the founding director of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project and the Robinson Professor in Children's Literature at Teachers ...