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Don’t believe everything you hear about rising graduation rates
Six months after a story celebrating the fact that all graduating seniors at one of D.C.’s lowest-performing high schools were admitted to college, NPR has reported a major qualification. Most of those students missed more than six weeks of school, and teachers and students confirm that many who graduated didn’t meet minimum graduation requirements.
This is a story not just about one low-performing
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“In short, teaching writing is not only inseparable from teaching content, it can also be tantamount to teaching students how to think critically.”
― The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System--and How to Fix it
― The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System--and How to Fix it
“For is not a Book the most reliable of Companions--and generally among the most stimulating as well? No need to worry about amusing or pleasing or making a good impression on a Book, when its only purpose is to entertain and, perhaps, instruct. And if it should fail in that purpose, one can merely return it to its shelf, without so much as a by-your-leave and no occasion for anxiety about its wounded Pride, either.”
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“Research has established that one aspect of reading does need to be taught and practiced as a set of skills, much like math: decoding, the part that involves matching sounds to letters. The problem is that the other aspect of reading—comprehension—is also being taught that way. While there’s plenty of evidence that some instruction in some comprehension strategies can be helpful for some children, there’s no reason to believe it can turn struggling readers into accomplished ones.”
― The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System--and How to Fix it
― The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System--and How to Fix it
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