She Was an Education Superstar. Then She Got Blamed for America's Reading Crisis.
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The push for phonics-based instruction has led many educators to criticize Lucy Calkins’s approach, suggesting that by not emphasizing it, her curriculum may fail students.
Calkins’s Units of Study, despite being widely adopted, has come under scrutiny for potentially leaving students ill-equipped in fundamental reading skills essential for literacy.
Read at The Atlantic
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