Experts call the literacy program, which also has a middle school companion two districts are also strong-arming, a “kitchen sink” curriculum and a “snooze fest.”
. As part of it, half of the city’s superintendents picked one of three elementary curricula to roll out in the fall.Experts said the other two, Wit & Wisdom and EL Education, are far better, offering esteemed works such as Newbery Medal-winning author Sharon Creech’s novel “Love that Dog,” and “Esperanza Rising,” a historical fiction novel considered a “canon” of children’s literature.
“The entire sixth through eighth grade middle school curriculum is much loved by parents,” griped Marjorie Naidich, a Park Slope parent who is unhappy with the new reading program. “He actually spent half of this past year writing a multi-chapter adventure story inspired by the books that he read and discussed in class,” Nieuwejaar continued. “This kind of deep intellectual work is something I don’t see in the Into Reading curriculum.”
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