Mark Federman is the principal of East Side Community School, a public school in New York City for sixth- through 12th-graders. He leads workshops throughout the country on balanced literacy and ...

Not all children learn to read in the same way, but schools tend to adopt a single approach to literacy. luckyvector/iStock via Getty Images Plus Five years after the pandemic forced children into ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

West Contra Costa Unified School District has set up a new literacy task force to answer long-held questions about the best ways to teach students how to read. The task force, which had its first ...

Mary Sacchetti spent six years and tens of thousands of dollars preparing to become a special education teacher and then a reading specialist. But even after she earned her master’s degree from a ...

It’s agreed across the spectrum of education that, ideally, until third grade kids learn to read and, after that kids read to learn. A wealth of statistics show that children who are not reading ...