RETOOLING SCHOOLING However, in 2022, after 40 years of miseducating millions of children, Calkins admitted she was wrong. With tail planted firmly between her legs, she admitted, “All of us are imperfect. The last two or three years, what I’ve learned from the science of reading work has been transformational.”
We must change the way we pay teachers and get back to traditional reading methods.
As I noted in January, the public school enrollment count for the 2023-24 school year showed that 9 of the top 10 and 38 of the 50 largest districts have lost students since 2019-20, while 31 of the 50 largest districts lost students between the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 school year, according to a National Center for Education Statistics report.