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Who's to blame for the reading crisis?

"Balanced literacy" guru Lucy Calkins has become the " scapegoat for America's reading crisis ," suggests Helen Lewis in The Atlantic. ...

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15 hours ago3 min read

Who's to blame for the reading crisis?

"Balanced literacy" guru Lucy Calkins has become the " scapegoat for America's reading crisis ," suggests Helen Lewis in The Atlantic. ...

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Ivy crazy: Should colleges make merit broader -- and fuzzier?

" The meritocracy isn't working ," writes David Brooks in The Atlantic . Ambitious parents "ferry their kids from one supervised...

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Teaching books doesn't work if students won't (or can't) read

English teachers don't teach many novels because students won't do the reading on their own.

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Oklahoma school leaders pray for state superintendent to shut up and leave them alone

Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters was once a high school history teacher, but seems to have forgotten about the First Amendment's rule...

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Young teachers like Trump?

Only 50 percent of educators -- 35 percent of those under 40 -- said they'd vote for Kamala Harris in a pre-election survey.

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De-woke schooling: Send the DEI trainers on a one-way 'privilege walk'

Pennsylvania educators will not have to affirm their belief in microaggressions, implicit bias or the illegitimacy of "economic,...

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Is everybody cheating?

Cheating is common for college students. Many think A is the only acceptable grade.

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