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S1-02. Background knowledge and education reform: Robert Pondiscio

Science of Reading: The Podcast

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The Knowledge Gap and the Ed Reform Movement

Sally Kohn: There has been momentum around the issue of background knowledge for students. She asks, why isn't this working as well as we thought it would? Kohn: The answer is because we have been inattentive to classroom practice. "We have not been learning the lessons that Don Hirsch and others have been trying to teach us," she says.

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