4: The Superstar
Update: 2022-11-03
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Teachers sing songs about Lucy Calkins. The longtime professor at Columbia University’s Teachers College is one of the most influential people in American elementary education today. Her admirers call her books bibles. Why didn't she know that scientific research contradicted reading strategies she promoted?
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Is it a cult or something? O.O
A story about uneducated people believing other uneducated people. Just because someone uses big words/terminology, they must know what they’re talking about, right ? WRONG. Gullible. They really should’ve asked these women how THEY learned to read. It obviously wasn’t the way that they were pushing. They talked that talk but didn’t walk it and that should’ve been a major red flag 🚩 As someone who’s always been a “good reader” I can honestly say that common sense truly isn’t common enough. What does a picture have to do with reading? Absolutely nothing. This all sounds like grooming and manipulation because these teachers are talking more about retreats and acting like the experience was about them having fun and being a part of something. A cult *cough*.