Philadelphia’s K-8 public school students are being taught a new literacy curriculum starting in the 2024-2025 school year.

And though the suit settled in 2021, the district’s method of teaching reading, a balanced literacy curriculum developed by Columbia University Teachers College professor Lucy Calkins called Units of ...

The district believes the new and more structured curriculum is better aligned with the science of reading and will help ... relationships are taught by first looking at a word and then breaking ...