Nancy Bailey: How Common Core and the “Science of Reading” Undermine Writing

Nancy Bailey: How Common Core and the “Science of Reading” Undermine Writing

Nancy Bailey is a retired teacher who has a deep understanding of teaching. Hers is the voice of experience. She writes here about recent innovations that have complicated the teaching of writing. Bailey writes: Critics slam teachers and public schools for low reading scores. Much of that criticism is wrong and misses the real problem. […]