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-----Original Message-----
>From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
>Sent: May 2, 2010 3:40 PM
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] willingham on the NAEP scores
>
>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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Thanks,
John A
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