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Did New York City Forget How to Teach

Children to Read? This fall, Eric Adams is
pivoting to phonics.
By Caitlin Moscatello

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t a meeting with parents in May, Elizabeth Phillips, a longtime principal at P.S. 321,
a highly sought-after elementary school in Park Slope, didn’t mince words about
the new reading curricula being implemented across the city this fall by Mayor Eric
Adams’s administration. Not only did she refer to the trio of options selected by Schools
Chancellor David Banks and the mayor’s Cabinet as “three bad choices,” she also shared her
plans to resist. “We are definitely pushing back against it,” she said, “and many principals in
the district are. And our superintendent understands that we are not going to do it with
fidelity, that we are going to keep doing what has worked for us.”

Phillips (who did not respond to interview requests; the spring meeting was recorded) is a
devotee of “balanced literacy,” an approach to teaching kids to read that had been the
prevailing ethos in New York City schools for roughly two decades — until it came crashing
down last year when heightened scrutiny caused the method’s once-revered leader, Lucy
Calkins, to concede that it was fundamentally flawed. Specifically, critics said kids were
falling behind because they didn’t know how to sound out words. Instead of phonics,
Calkins’s program pushed a cuing method that instructed students to look at the first letter
of a word, then to a picture on the page, and consider the context and piece it all together.
But this technique relied on students having enough background knowledge to make the
proper inferences as well as the ability to process language without difficulty. As a result,
many kids weren’t actually reading. They simply became really good at guessing.

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Last year, Adams — who is dyslexic and has been open about struggling in school as a child
— mandated that New York City public schools supplement early-reading instruction with
phonics. The change was largely welcomed; many school leaders, including Phillips, had
already recognized the need and sprinkled more phonics into their lessons. But in the
spring, Banks announced a much more sweeping change: Over the next two years, all New
York City public-school districts must implement one of three reading curricula that follow
“the science of reading,” an approach based on long-standing research showing that kids
become stronger readers when there is an early focus on phonemic awareness (the ability to
identify sounds, like rhyming) and phonics (breaking down words by letter sounds and
syllables). Calkins’s curriculum, formally titled Units of Study, which she revised to include
more phonics as part of her public mea culpa more than a year ago, did not make the cut.
On September 1, Columbia University’s prestigious Teachers College — which championed
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program she founded was being dissolved to make way for a new Advancing Literacy unit
that aims to “foster more conversations and collaboration among different evidence-based
approaches to literacy.” In other words: It’s following the science too.

Columbia’s announcement marked a sharp pivot, as did the move by the Adams
administration. Balanced literacy has been taught throughout the U.S., but no city bought
in more than New York — home to Calkins, Teachers College, and, most crucially, the
largest public-school system in the country with more than 1 million students. A 2019
curriculum survey of nearly 600 public elementary schools in the city, obtained by
Chalkbeat and The City, showed that almost half were using Units of Study, making it the
single most popular choice “by far.” The results have been bleak: State tests from 2022, the
most recent year for which data is available, showed that only 49 percent of the city’s third-
to eighth-graders were considered proficient at reading and writing for their grade level —
not out of step with national numbers but still alarming. Black and Hispanic students fared
even worse; just over a third were proficient. When Banks announced the curriculum
mandate, he called the current state of literacy “the educational crisis of our time.”

The rollout of the new curricula begins this month for almost half of the city’s 32 school
districts. The program has been named NYC Reads and will cost an estimated $35 million
in its first year. Educators who advocated for the change and parents who have been paying
attention — including those who had time to listen to the podcast Sold a Story, which
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drop-off last year — are celebrating.

But there’s also anxiety. Teachers, barely recovered from the stress of the pandemic, fear
that if the program doesn’t achieve quick success, they will be blamed. Others resent being
told from up high what they should do in their classrooms. And there’s suspicion,
particularly among opponents of the mandate, that the Adams administration is simply
swapping one trend in education for another, potentially leaving schools in a lurch if he
doesn’t get reelected.

NYC Reads comes at a time when the city itself is at a tipping point. The population
remains below pre-pandemic levels while rents soar. Many office buildings, a major tax
generator, stand as post-pandemic ghost towers. Violent-crime rates are down and subway
ridership is up, but New Yorkers are still wary. For families on the fence about staying here,
access to a quality public education is a major factor. After all, what good is a city that can’t
teach its children to read?

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he debate about the best way to help children learn to read goes back more than
100 years, but an overwhelming body of data has shown the benefit of having kids
sound out letters and words. One of the largest analyses of such studies is a 2000
report by the National Reading Panel, which found that phonemic-awareness instruction
helps kids learn to read and boosts comprehension, while teaching systematic phonics
“makes a bigger contribution to children’s growth in reading than alternative programs
providing unsystematic or no phonics instruction.” President George W. Bush used the
report as the foundation for his own reading initiative, which stressed phonics for early
readers.

Even that report left the door open for proponents of balanced literacy, noting that phonics
“should be integrated with other reading instruction to create a balanced reading program.”
Plenty of educators listened to this part loudly — despite the fact that those advocating for
more phonics were never saying phonics only. “When I started on this journey, I was like,
Phonics? That’s what George Bush wanted. Phonics? That’s what happens in red states,” says
Danielle, a teacher in New York who, like many of the two dozen people interviewed for
this article, requested we use her first name out of concern for professional consequences.

Calkins’s curriculum was an antidote to what some educators perceived as the dry approach
advocated by the Bush administration. Her early books — The Art of Teaching Reading and
The Art of Teaching Writing — appealed to educators in part because she treated their
profession as a craft and the children as whole people. Michael Gervais, a teacher in Fort
Greene who studied under Calkins, says that even though he has long been skeptical of her
approach, “she encouraged me to always listen to children in a deeper way. She really
nurtured that.”

Getting kids excited about reading was an easy idea to get behind. Teachers who liked
Calkins’s curriculum found it both more engaging than having kids repeat sounds over and
over and, several say, much easier to teach. As one puts it, “Phonics is very much about
‘This is correct, this is incorrect.’ Balanced literacy is very much like, ‘Let’s let the child do a
self-discovery to make sure they can make a stronger connection.’”

But the kids also needed to learn to read. Maggi Padua, a New York City public-school
teacher who retires this month after 30 years in the classroom, maintains, “For years, I’ve
been saying, ‘This is crazy that they’re asking students to guess the word.’” Teachers who
started their careers in New York City describe being confused by the method, but also
trusting it. “I was like, What? We just tell them to look at the pictures?” says Ellie, also a
public-school teacher in the city. “But I was also like, It’s Columbia, so it must work, right?”
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Calkins: “There was always this mystique. ‘Ooooh, listen, these teachers are going off to the
Adirondacks to her cabin to write curriculum.’ Ooh wooow.”

Teachers express guilt about all the students who might have fallen through the cracks over
the years. An early indicator of dyslexia, which affects as much as 20 percent of the
population, is when a child has trouble rhyming — one of the first skills taught in phonemic
awareness. With balanced literacy, the red flags were too easy to miss. Students who spoke
a first language other than English were also at a disadvantage. For years, Jackie
Rosenberg, co-founder of the private tutoring company City Kid NY, taught second grade
at a New York City public school where many of her students spoke Urdu, Arabic, Bengali,
or Spanish. When she tried to teach them with Calkins’s approach, her students lacked the
English vocabulary to accurately guess. Imagine someone pointing to an image of an object
and asking you to say what it is in a language you barely know.

A chief complaint about balanced literacy is that it works best for kids who have a leg up —
the ones surrounded by books at home, who are also exposed to a range of experiences at an
early age. These are often the same kids who, if they do struggle, have parents who can buy
them extra help. Craig Selinger, owner of the tutoring service Brooklyn Letters, says there
has recently been “a substantial surge” in demand for his company’s literacy tutoring.
Rosenberg says City Kid clients typically pay anywhere from $6,500 to $12,000 per school
year for tutoring.

“It makes me really angry for the families that I teach, the families that don’t have the
resources,” says Ellie, who hired a tutor to help her own daughter with dyslexia when she
couldn’t get support from her local public school. She has since enrolled her daughter in a
charter school and says she’s weary of parents in her upscale section of Brooklyn who wax
poetic about the neighborhood school while supplementing their kids’ education. “It’s all so
contradictory. It’s like, ‘I’m at this school because I want diversity, but I’m going to then
secretly give my kids all the things they need and not push the school to do that.’” When
teachers sounded the alarm about balanced literacy, they say they were told to troubleshoot
with a list of interventions that often didn’t work or they were told that outside factors were
at play. “The emphasis was on poverty and racism, and we were told those were the reasons
kids weren’t learning — not the curriculum,” says Lindsay, who worked in New York City
charter schools for over a decade.

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s the new school year approached, the mood around the rollout of NYC Reads could
be described as tentative excitement. Thousands of teachers had signed petitions
calling for a more evidence-based curriculum. “The reality is that teachers want
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chapter of Educators for Excellence, an organization that advocates for teachers’ input in
creating education policy. “The anxiety is that that support won’t be there.”

Last spring, teachers in districts that are part of the first phase of the rollout underwent
training on the three curricula options: Into Reading, Wit & Wisdom, and EL Education.
All but two districts chose Into Reading, for which teachers received anywhere from nine to
14 hours of training via webinar. New teachers and those not able to attend were offered
training in July and August, but the school system can’t force educators to work over the
summer. Throughout the school year, teachers will also receive a minimum of eight in-
person training sessions. Funding for these will come from the $35 million central budget
allotted for phase one of the initiative, according to Carolyne Quintana, deputy chancellor
of teaching and learning for New York City public schools. She says some schools are hiring
extra coaches at their own expense — those with the funds to do so, of course.

All three of the new curricula meet both expectations for usability and standards for what
students should know and be able to do at a particular grade level, per the nonprofit
EdReports. “Each of these were highly reviewed and nationally recognized,” says Quintana.
But she provides minimal detail on the process of selection and on why these curricula
stood out among all the available options. EL was chosen in part for its “really strong
alignment to the phonemic-awareness supports,” she says. Into Reading was chosen
because “it has resources and guidance not only for teachers but for parents so they can
help their kids at home,” as well as a Spanish component, Ariba, for students who learned
Spanish as their first language. And Wit & Wisdom has what Quintana describes as a “large
range of reading materials.”

There are teachers who remain skeptical of the new curricula even if they support a shift to
the science of reading. Several say they are worried that these curricula haven’t been
properly vetted. Out of all the options available, they want to know, Why these three? One
principal surmises that Into Reading is so popular because it was free during the pandemic
and some schools were already using it, and because the publisher is able to scale for such a
massive school system. Another says it’s difficult to up and change a curriculum that has
been in place for years because it becomes part of a school’s culture. There’s an emotional
attachment.

One Brooklyn principal whose district is using Into Reading describes the training she
received in June as an “infomercial.” Was it adequate? “I feel like it’s asking, ‘Is Lionel Messi
prepared to score goals at his new soccer team?’” she says. “But meanwhile, there’s no ball,
no stadium, no fans. I feel like the bigger question is like, What investment have we made
in ensuring all teachers have what they need to make sure all students learn to read?”
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In May, NYU Steinhardt’s Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the
Transformation of Schools declared Into Reading to be “culturally destructive” owing to
“superficial visual representations to signify diversity” and “one-sided storytelling that
provided a single, ahistorical narrative.” More than 80 percent of students in New York City
public schools are children of color. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, which publishes Into
Reading, refutes the NYU findings. “They took snippets of pieces of content that in no way
represent the corpus of what’s in the program,” says Jim O’Neill, the head of core
curriculum at HMH.

Its most convincing selling point may come straight from the city’s classrooms: An analysis
by HMH of more than 5,000 students in grades two through five who used Into Reading or
HMH professional supports in the 2021–22 school year found a 24 percent increase in
students reading at or above functional grade level and a 42 percent decrease in students
performing two or more years below grade level.

Quintana says there are no plans, for now, to allow exceptions for schools that don’t want to
make the switch, including in phase two. She expects they will try anyway — and if Phillips,
the principal of P.S. 321 who was outspoken about the change this spring, is any indication,
Quintana is right. One principal who supports the curriculum mandate understands the
resistance to it: “We were told Teachers College was the best thing since sliced bread, and so
now we are supposed to say it’s not because you’re telling us it’s not? Not that I agree with
it, but it’s not fair to say, ‘You’re still doing Teachers College? I can’t believe it!’”

It could be three to five years before Adams’s big gamble can pay off. That’s how long
educators say it takes to really get comfortable with a curriculum and know whether it’s
working. Some educators in the first phase of the rollout are envious of the districts in
phase two, which have more time to select a curriculum and the benefit of observing how
things go this year. Others say there’s no time to waste. “A year’s wait for a kindergartner to
second-grader is a lifetime in terms of being able to learn to read,” says Danielle, the
teacher. “It’s not pivotal in the scheme of a curriculum, but it’s pivotal in the life of a child.”

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