Child abuse!-----Columbia quietly closes down Teachers College project that ruined countless lives

Columbia quietly closes down Teachers College project that ruined countless lives - Post Editorial Board
"Columbia University is trying to quietly walk away from a disaster it imposed on generations of American children.
The least we can do is call out the damage done...
For decades, Calkins and her colleagues pushed “literacy” programs based on ideology, not science, programs that failed the children who most needed help.
Her “balanced literacy” approach gave short shrift to phonics — by teaching children to look at pictures and guess words, for example, instead of sounding them out — and failed to foster the building of knowledge and vocabulary vital to learning the love of reading...