Nearly everyone backs the science of reading. Why did it take eight years to update the UNC System's literacy curriculum?

But Berkeley’s experience also demonstrates just how many barriers stand in the way of changing reading instruction. When Lucy Calkins developed her approach in the 1990s, the balanced literacy ...

Thousands of schools once used three-cueing as part of the “balanced literacy” approach championed by Calkins and others that focused, for example, on having children independently read books ...