Education Week

Readers Had a Lot to Say About Lucy Calkins’ Essay. Here’s a Sampling

Last month, Education Week published an opinion essay in print and online by Lucy Calkins, the Richard Robinson Professor of Literacy at Teachers College and the founding director of the Teachers ...
Gothamist

Teachers College, Columbia U. dissolves program behind literacy curriculum used in NYC public schools

The once-revered Columbia University program behind a flawed literacy curriculum used in New York City schools will be “dissolved,” the university announced. The Teachers College Reading and Writing ...
The New York Times

New Reading Curriculum Is Mired in Debate Over Race and Gender

Lucy Calkins’s curriculum was meant to bring phonics to struggling students. But its publication has been stalled after a debate over whether to accommodate conservative state laws. By Dana Goldstein ...
National Review

Another Progressive Educational Model Gets Discredited

To Counter China, America’s Military AI Needs an Open-Source Reboot Sunset for Regulations, Sunrise for Opportunity The director of Teachers College Reading and Writing Project for Columbia University ...
EdSource

Berkeley schools use a discredited reading curriculum. Why is it still in classrooms?

March 12, 2026 - A settlement was recently reached in a class-action case, requiring LAUSD to offer intensive "high-dose" tutoring to 100,000 students for three years. This story is a collaboration ...