Two Massachusetts moms are suing a coalition of publishers and educators they say ruined literacy instruction in America’s public schools for decades.
Karrie Conley and Michele Hudak filed a class-action lawsuit last week, arguing literacy instruction was purposefully undermined for the sake of profit.
The defendants in the case are literacy “pioneers,” including Lucy Calkins, Irene Fountas, and Gay Su Pinnell, as well as Heinemann Publishing and other groups affiliated with reading instruction.
The lawsuit claims the defendants are guilty of “unfair and deceptive marketing practices” and negligence for steering reading instruction away from phonics.
