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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s based one fake research. What more could you need to know?

Listen to sold a story, read any of the articles, form your own opinion….

As a parent, former teacher, curriculum specialist there’s no way I would want my kids at a school that uses this approach. It’s likely a huge part of why we see so many young adults who are failure to launch kids and why we see so many kids unprepared for college and career. Kids of all kinds need direct instruction! [/quote]

https://hechingerreport.org/opinion-a-call-for-rejecting-the-newest-reading-wars/

Critics have said Sold A Story is overly pushing phonics alone. They say if you teach phonics and bring in supplementary material, Calkins, writers workshop, F&P can be great. 
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PP.  The truth is that good teachers can rise above bad curriculums to a surprising degree...if they are allowed to use their judgment and they have administrative support and a reasonably-sized classroom of well-behaved kids to teach.  Those are a lot of preconditions.

I mentioned my kids went through this curriculum.  I have more regrets on the math curriculum side where a best practices "Singapore Math" curriculum had to be ripped out and a new one put in.  I've spent $$$$ remediating that curriculum plus pandemic effects and all the tutoring really does is assign problem sets and monitor the kid working through them.  Exactly like what they would do in school if teachers had infinite time to give personal attention to every student.[/quote]

What kind of math curriculum was put in place to replace Singapore? [/quote]

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