The new schools chancellor in New York City is advocating teachers use the once-mandated citywide but now questioned (some would say “discredited”) approach to reading instruction known as “balanced ...

In his press conference introducing Carmen Fariña as New York City’s schools chancellor, Mayor de Blasio suggested that he had picked her over several other candidates because she was on the same page ...

They’re at it again in New York City. When Mayor Bloomberg came in, his education chancellor, Joel Klein, blessed Balanced Literacy—the program backed by Columbia University scholar Lucy Calkins, not ...

It’s agreed across the spectrum of education that, ideally, until third grade kids learn to read and, after that kids read to learn. A wealth of statistics show that children who are not reading ...

In his press conference introducing Carmen Fariña as New York City’s next schools chancellor, Mayor Bill de Blasio suggested that he had picked her over several other candidates because she was on the ...

Parents walking their young children into school for the first time may get excited at the books lining classroom walls — but those collections of books aren’t necessarily a guarantee their kids are ...

Along with all of the educational technology that’s made its way into the K-12 classroom over the last 10 years, we also now have a constant stream of useful, actionable data that we can use to ...