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The new curriculum is grounded in research on how kids best learn to read. But it will take teachers time to learn which ...

Lucy Calkins was an education superstar. Now she’s cast as the reason a generation of students struggles to read. Can she ...

"She thought winning was important but the love in her is much more important than all the games," said one second-grader.