NYC's Most Popular Literacy Program May Not Be Working

The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 23, 2023

Alex Zimmerman, reporter at Chalkbeat New York, and Yoav Gonen, senior reporter for The City, discuss New York City's efforts to move away from its most widely used reading curriculum, created by Lucy Calkins at Columbia University’s Teachers College, toward a more phonics-centered approach.

→"Hundreds of NYC elementary schools used a Teachers College reading curriculum Banks said ‘has not worked’" (Chalkbeat NY & The City, 2/14/23)

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