New York City's schools, for example, have long been have long been in
the thrall of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project (TCRWP), which encourages even the youngest children to plumb the depths of their six - and seven - year - old souls for material for personal essays.
Farina is notoriously in the
thrall of Lucy Calkins
of Teachers»
College, a literacy guru whose approach to reading failed a generation
of city kids and was wisely dumped by the New York City Department
of Education before Farina took over and resurrected it.