NYC Educator: The TCRWP; Or, How Bad Ideas Survive Even When You Try to Squash Them

NYC Educator: The TCRWP; Or, How Bad Ideas Survive Even When You Try to Squash Them:

The TCRWP; Or, How Bad Ideas Survive Even When You Try to Squash Them

by Miss Eyre

As some of my regular readers may know, I have no great love for the Teachers' College Reading and Writing Project; or, more accurately, how the TCRWP tends to get implemented in the city schools.  It has some fine ideas in theory, and it may be appropriate in some settings, but with the populations that most of us tend to teach, it's like giving a violin player a tuba.

So I read, with something like horror, that there is in the world a book called (ludicrously) Pathways to the Common Core by none other than TCRWP's high priestess, Lucy Calkins.  Education Gadfly's Common Core Watch does a pretty good job of calling into