To the Editor:
I am not sure this letter will ever reach anyone who will care, but I am saddened by the publishing of Lucy Calkins鈥� opinion essay in the Nov. 23 Education Week issue (鈥�Lucy Calkins Revisits and Revises Her Reading Curriculum鈥�). I have been an avid supporter and reader, but I am disappointed that EdWeek promoted 鈥渢he important truth about how to teach reading鈥� by printing a piece by Calkins.
EdWeek is helping to tip the scales by allowing misinformation to continue. I think the paper has done a deep disservice to our children and our advocacy efforts to shift how reading is taught. This piece will be used as 鈥渆vidence鈥� that Calkins and colleagues鈥� Units of Study is effective or acceptable to keep in our classrooms.
I have lost a bit of respect for EdWeek, as it is supposed to follow evidence and find best practices for students. Again, I realize my words are a drop in the bucket, but I couldn鈥檛 just leave it. EdWeek should be ashamed to have allowed those words to be published.
Opinion or not, when a piece appears in print, it carries weight, and EdWeek just hurt all of the teachers in the struggle to improve our schools.
Elise Lovejoy
CEO & Founder
Express Readers
Pasadena, Calif.
