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 ...

I recently visited classrooms with an elementary school principal in a racially diverse Virginia district that primarily serves students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. The district had ...

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 ...

Diana Senechal teaches philosophy at Columbia Secondary School for Math, Science and Engineering. She is the author of "Republic of Noise: The Loss of Solitude in Schools and Culture." Updated July 3, ...

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 ...

In some of his first public comments since being named New York City’s incoming schools chancellor, David Banks has drawn cheers from savvy education observers and literacy experts for remarks ...