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 ...

Teachers College of Columbia University says it is “dissolving” its Reading and Writing Project after more than 40 years. The project received national media criticism for how it taught teachers to ...

Teachers College professor Lucy Calkins’ Units of Study For Teaching Reading curriculum was once used in hundreds of New York City public schools and thousands of elementary schools nationwide. A ...

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, ...

In the raging debate over how U.S. schools teach children to read, few figures have been as controversial yet lionized as Lucy Calkins, the literacy guru and curriculum entrepreneur. For four decades, ...

Columbia University is trying to quietly walk away from a disaster it imposed on generations of American children. The least we can do is call out the damage done. Just before the Labor Day weekend, ...