Read "The Atlantic" on Lucy Calkins

 ...because what is described there is precisely what we see with Massachusett's "curriculum map" of "the right curricula" to teach and what we saw last night at Worcester School Committee with the idea that "we are doing EITHER this OR that" when that shouldn't be how classrooms work.

Gift link is here.

The science of reading started as a neutral description of a set of principles, but it has now become a brand name, another off-the-shelf solution to America’s educational problems. The answer to those problems might not be to swap out one commercial curriculum package for another—but that’s what the system is set up to enable.

And it isn't that simple, as much as legislators and those who make fancy maps for DESE might want it to be.