COMMENTARY: Less than half of all Massachusetts third-graders were at grade level for reading. California has six times as ...
That’s the animating question behind a lawsuit filed by two mothers Wednesday in Massachusetts Superior Court against Lucy Calkins (renowned for “Units of Study”), Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell (of ...
Those prominent literacy specialists—education professors Lucy Calkins, and Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell, and the publishers of their curricula—inaccurately billed their programs as ...
The school’s Principal, Cindy Wondercheck, said they restructured its literacy curriculum back in 2018 — utilizing the Fountas and Pinnell program, curriculum maps and a balanced literacy ...
The publishers are listed as defendants alongside Calkins, Fountas, Pinnell, and Teachers College at Columbia University, where Calkins developed her approach. None of the researchers, publishers ...
Governor Matt Pinnell, State Superintendent Ryan Walters, State Auditor Cindy Byrd, and Secretary of Agriculture Blayne Arthur. The board meeting, which is open to the public, will be held at 10: ...