[lbo-talk] willingham on the NAEP scores

[Carrol Cox]

I don't understand this at all. Who needs a knowledge base? What is the
NAEP? Who is the "we" doing the expecting? What does it mean to read
"confidently"? I don't read anything more than two or three sentences
confidently, because in anything longer my eyes will deceive me by
seeing a different word than the text contains. For example, it was only
the third time I read through your post that I recognized the word
"encounter." (I can't remember how I construed those marks the first two
readings.)

Carrol

Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
> 
> "What’s needed is a substantial knowledge base. Knowledge of the
> content they are likely to encounter when reading the sorts of
> materials we expect them to read confidently: newspapers, magazines,
> and serious books."
> 
> http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/daniel-willingham/willingham-misunderstanding-na.html
> 
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