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 ...

The most recent assessment of American students' reading skills suggests too many kids are struggling. And as a story in the ...

Both Calkins’ curriculum and those created by Fountas and Pinnell were the focus of “Sold A Story,” the award-winning podcast ...

A class-action lawsuit filed in Massachusetts claims that education publisher Heinemann, based in Portsmouth, falsely ...

So when the English department where I teach asked for proposals ... importance of historical and social context. Most authors we read use fair play, the clues are there for the readers, so ...

A crucial gameplay element is the time limit imposed on solving each case, teaching players time management skills and adding ...

Two Massachusetts families say Lucy Calkins, other literacy specialists, and their publisher willfully ignored heaps of ...

Lucy Calkins was an education superstar. Now she’s cast as the reason a generation of students struggles to read. Can she ...

Some schools are changing the way they teach reading—based on research that shows background knowledge is more critical to comprehension than general skills like ‘finding the main idea.’ Holly Korbey ...