A second state-ordered audit of Milwaukee Public Schools focuses on how the district teaches its students. It found glaring ...

After finishing her eighth year as a reading interventionist at Franklin STEAM Academy in May, Shontelle Mapson received her ...

Roughly 70% of elementary school students in Berlin aren’t reading at their grade level. Some teachers are saying that’s because of how those students are taught to read.

Five years after the pandemic forced children into remote instruction, two-thirds of U.S. fourth graders still cannot read at grade level. Reading scores lag 2 percentage points below 2022 levels ...

Two research reports in particular, however, subjected balanced literacy curricula to serious analysis. In 2015, a study of Fountas and Pinnell’s Benchmark Assessment System, conducted by Matthew ...

This misrepresentation of the data, combined with political pressure from teachers’ unions, a recession, and initiatives to grant local control over curricula led Congress to defund Reading First in ...

Earlier this month, a group of parents filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts against the creators of some of the most popular reading curricula from the past few decades: Lucy Calkins, Irene Fountas ...

At the Market (Fountas and Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention Books, Orange System, Level A, Book 1) by Natalie Sweet Publication date 2009-01-01 Publisher Heinemann Collection internetarchivebooks ...

Aimed at reading series by Lucy Calkins and Fountas and Pinnell, the tort raises new questions about how popular curricula are marketed By Sarah Schwartz — December 06, 2024 7 min read ...

The defendants include Heinemann’s parent company, HMH, formerly known as Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; authors Lucy Calkins, Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell; and several related organizations ...

Last year, Teachers College disbanded Calkins’ Reading and Writing Project. Fountas and Pinnell, meanwhile, have largely stood behind their work. A lawsuit represents one perspective on a complaint.

In what appears to be a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, two local families on Wednesday sued literacy specialists Lucy Calkins, Irene Fountas, and Gay Su Pinnell, whose reading curriculums have been ...