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 ...

It’s 2026 and while many are focused on turning their New Year’s Resolutions into reality, the Chatham Educational Alliance ...

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 ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I recently visited classrooms with an elementary school principal in a racially diverse Virginia district that primarily serves ...

CASD's plan combines professional development, revamped instructional models, and tools to help more students ready by end of third grade.

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 ...

January 29, 2026 - In 1985, Merryl Goldberg went to the Soviet Union and met The Phantom Orchestra. To help them she made up a secret code, hidden in sheet music. West Contra Costa Unified School ...