A Good Start Reading Supports Kids Left Behind by Broken Programs
Families Seek Accountability for Ineffective Reading Curriculums A Massachusetts lawsuit accuses literacy specialists Lucy Calkins, Irene Fountas, and Gay Su Pinnell, along with their publisher, of promoting curriculums they allegedly knew were ineffective. Plaintiffs claim the authors ignored decades of research supporting phonics-based instruction and used weak studies to back their work. The lawsuit underscores…