I'm sure she's right.Lucy Calkins, a professor at Columbia University’s Teachers College and an architect of the city’s balanced literacy program, said that the 10 schools participating in the Core Knowledge pilot should try to also include other approaches in their curriculum. For example, she said, she hoped there would still be time “to teach revision strategies in a writing workshop or the skills of inference in a reading workshop — that you’re not only talking about the subject.”
Still, she said, “This could be calling us to a new and better balance.”
10 City Schools to Focus Reading Skills on Content
New York Times
I'm sure that within a couple of years the Core Knowledge component of the Core Knowledge program will have been balanced into something more to the liking of Lucy Calkins, trainer of 10,000 teachers.
That's the way these things work, it seems.
This reminds me - I wonder how those lawsuits against Calkins' Reading and Writing Project turned out. More than a few cities claimed they'd been defrauded.
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