Education Week

Teachers College to ‘Dissolve’ Lucy Calkins’ Reading and Writing Project

The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, the instructional consultancy housed at Columbia University and founded by the popular and controversial literacy icon Lucy Calkins, will soon be ...
The Atlantic

How One Woman Became the Scapegoat for America’s Reading Crisis

Until a couple of years ago, Lucy Calkins was, to many American teachers and parents, a minor deity. Thousands of U.S. schools used her curriculum, called Units of Study, to teach children to read and ...
The New York Times

Amid Reading Wars, Teachers College Will Close a Star Professor’s Shop

Lucy Calkins ran a beloved — and criticized — center at Teachers College for four decades. It is being dissolved. By Dana Goldstein In the urgent debate over how U.S. schools teach children to read, ...
The New York Times

In the Fight Over How to Teach Reading, This Guru Makes a Major Retreat

Lucy Calkins, a leading literacy expert, has rewritten her curriculum to include a fuller embrace of phonics and the science of reading. Critics may not be appeased. By Dana Goldstein For decades, ...