The New York Times

Balanced Literacy Works Best for Common Core

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 ...
The Journal

5 Ways to Add Elements of the Science of Reading to a Balanced Literacy Program

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 ...
Hartford Courant

Alana Sejdic: Keep schools accountable for universally designed reading instruction

The battleground of the reading wars is a contentious and scary place. This war has been ongoing for a century, with either side gaining and losing ground as the educational pendulum swings back and ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

'Science of reading,' whole language,' 'balanced literacy': How can Wisconsin resolve its ‘reading wars’ and teach kids to read?

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 ...
The New York Times

Balanced Literacy Is One Effective Approach

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 ...
EdSource

West Contra Costa superintendent seeks to raise reading scores

Turning the tide on years of lagging elementary school reading scores at West Contra Costa Unified has become Superintendent Chris Hurst’s “No.1 priority.” Hurst, in his third year as the district’s ...