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

The recent turn towards the "science of reading" contrasts with the balanced-literacy theories that heavily influenced how teachers were instructed to teach reading over the past two decades.

Balanced literacy, an outgrowth of the once-popular “whole language” approach, downplays phonics, which it views as just one of several strategies in teaching reading. Other methods include ...

But Berkeley’s experience also demonstrates just how many barriers stand in the way of changing reading instruction. When Lucy Calkins developed her approach in the 1990s, the balanced literacy ...

It is easy for districts immersed in a balanced literacy approach to use the academies to reinforce ... the organization’s scorecard for effectively preparing educators to teach reading. What’s more, ...

As part of her search for a director of elementary education in literacy, Crook County Schools Superintendent Melissa Skinner ...

doesn’t believe any teaching method should be banned. Ohio had been a pioneer in the three-cueing approach. In 1984, Ohio ...

Last month, an ITV News investigation revealed that a method which has been discredited for decades is being widely used in schools across Wales. | ITV News Wales ...