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85. Why Don't Students Like School? by Daniel Willingham

Education Bookcast

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How Can I Help Slow Learners?

It says 50% genetic in this book. But whatever figure I ever hear, I always tone it down for that reason. You can't say that you've really made their environment very different if they're both eating fish and chips and going to the local comprehensive. They're going to have actually similar environments anyway. The required knowledge about students is what do my students know? And the most important classroom implication is it is not possible to think well on a topic in the absence of factual knowledge about the topic.

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