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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids public has 400 kids who all come from educated and middle to upper class families. If Why hasn’t there been a peep about curriculum concerns, let alone an uproar? Is it possible that the entire teaching staff, district admin, and parents are ALL clueless? I find that hard to believe. They use F&P balanced literacy and writers workshop. I don’t know about upper elementary, but so far there’s been no homework except a weekly set of graded readers in K and 1st, and 1 math worksheet per week in 1st-2nd.

I will say virtually no students coming out of our “award winning” top high school go to top 20 colleges. A big 10 state school is the end all be all of coveted reach. [/quote]
What are you talking about?  There's been a nationwide uproar for several years about this.  It's been huge in the educational world.  If you don't know about it and have a kid in elementary school, then you have your head in the sand.  Listen to the Sold a Story podcast to catch up and then read some news.[/quote]
Examples of coverage: 
The Atlantic - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/12/lucy-calkins-child-literacy-teaching-methodology/680394/

Forbes- https://www.forbes.com/sites/nataliewexler/2021/11/21/problems-with-lucy-calkins-curriculum-go-beyond-reading-to-writing/

NYTimes-
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/22/us/reading-teaching-curriculum-phonics.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/us/lucy-calkins-teachers-college.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/podcasts/the-daily/reading-school-phonics.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/21/us/lucy-calkins-race-gender-curriculum.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/04/opinion/letters/reading-phonics.html

Vox-
https://www.vox.com/23815311/science-of-reading-movement-literacy-learning-loss

Boston Globe -
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/04/metro/science-of-reading-lawsuit-calkins-fountas-pinnell-heinemann/

Education Week-
https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/4-things-to-know-about-the-literacy-lawsuit-targeting-lucy-calkins-and-fountas-pinnell/2024/12

https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/parents-sue-lucy-calkins-fountas-and-pinnell-and-others-over-reading-curricula/2024/12

NYPost -
https://nypost.com/2023/09/21/repairing-the-damage-columbias-teachers-college-did-to-american-kids-will-take-years/

Slate-
https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/10/reading-phonics-literacy-calkins-curriculum-public-school.html

The New Yorker-
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/the-rise-and-fall-of-vibes-based-literacy

CBS News-
https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/literacy-materials-dropped-by-many-schools-face-new-pressure-from-struggling-readers-parents-2/

Newsweek-
https://www.newsweek.com/our-terrible-education-system-not-pandemic-blame-low-test-scores-opinion-1810588

Etc.[/quote]

Most (all?) of these stories have to do with phonics and reading. What about the writing workshop piece, which is what the thread is about? [/quote]
That wasn't what this list was responding to.  Keep up.  If you want to find news pieces on writers workshop, do your own search.  [/quote]

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