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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm tier lady from above, and I will add a few thoughts:

Lucy Caulkins actively encourages bad habits: look at the first letter and guess, examine context clues, etc. So whatever you do at home will be undermined by the school. (I don't have explicit data for Lucy Caulkins, but Reading Recovery, a popular balanced literacy reading intervention program, has been shown in studies to leave children worse off in the long term, and they do the same sorts of things.)

Using a balanced literacy like Caulkins should be a flag of deepest red hue when it comes to a school. It was easier to ignore the evidence a few years ago; but now this is even less tenable. You know that the school is using a terrible reading program - with what certainty can you say that their other curricula are better?

Find something else. Heck, the fundamentalist school down the street may be teaching that the world is only seven thousand years old, but their students are going to be able to read evidence against this without as much outside intervention.[/quote]

Great point. Which fundamentalist school is this so we can check it out? [/quote]

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