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Other schools are backing away from a disproven theory about how kids learn to read, but programs started by Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell train literacy coaches to believe in it.
Eric Adams is pivoting New York City public schools to phonics. The debate about the best way to help children learn to read goes back years, but an overwhelming body of data has shown the benefit of having kids sound out letters and words.
Lucy Calkins ran a beloved — and criticized — center at Teachers College for four decades. It is being dissolved.