Minding the Gap
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Many students can't take advantage of job training programs because they never got effective literacy instruction.
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It's a worthy goal, but evidence indicates it's neither necessary nor sufficient to boost outcomes for the most vulnerable students.
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It would help if teacher-training programs disseminated accurate information.
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We can make college admissions fairer, but it will take a lot more than eliminating tests.
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Readers seemed most interested in Lucy Calkins, African American English, and ... Lucy Calkins.
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Tying evaluations to growth in reading test scores can be counter-productive and unfair.
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Telling kids the way they speak is "wrong" can have unintended negative consequences.
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Turning on closed captions and using smartphones to read aloud can boost vocabulary and reading fluency.
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Her influential approach vastly underestimates how difficult writing is for most students.
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She's popularized an approach to reading comprehension that prevents many kids from succeeding at upper grade levels
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Whatever you want to call it, there are documented instances of overreach in the name of social justice.
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Test-based rating systems have already distorted curriculum and instruction.
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