More about Calkins

Two responses to Helen Lewis’s Atlantic article, “How Lucy Calkins Became the Face of America’s Reading Crisis”:

From Mark Seindenberg, cognitive scientist, neuroscientist, and psycholinguist, “Calkins Redux.” An excerpt:

Calkins is not the “scapegoat” for America’s failure to adequately teach reading. As the author of a popular but deeply flawed curriculum and a “thought leader” who cultivated a large, uncritical following, she contributed to those failures. She wasn’t alone, but she was enormously influential and an obstacle to change.

(With a link to an earlier piece: “This Is Why We Don't Have Better Readers: Response to Lucy Calkins.”)

And from Natalie Wexler, education writer, “Is Lucy Calkins a ‘Scapegoat’ for America's Reading Crisis?” An excerpt:

It’s hard — maybe impossible — to acknowledge that your life’s work, which you’ve seen as an idealistic endeavor on behalf of children, has actually prevented untold numbers of kids from realizing their true potential.

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