The ideas that caused this mess are finally on their way out. I say good riddance.
Call it the end of an era for fantasy-fueled reading instruction. In a move that has parents like me cheering, Columbia University’s Teachers Collegethat it is shuttering its once famous—in some circles, now-infamous—reading organization founded by education guru and entrepreneur Lucy Calkins.
It’s common knowledge that never learning to read well damages children’s self-esteem, their life prospects, and our country’s future workforce. What’s less talked about is how, when schools fail to teach reading, it harms the public’s trust in schools. An unspoken contract between public schools and parents is that schools will teach their children to read.
My son’s teacher took a “wait and see” approach to the many flailing readers in that class, but my son’s disruptive behavior worried her, and she urged my husband and me to have him evaluated. We did. A neuropsychologist who charged a small fortune suspected dyslexia. She thought his classroom outbursts were fueled in part by frustration over reading; he knew he should be reading, he didn’t know how, and that was making him hate everything, including himself.
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