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How Core kids learn reading, writing
Fordham’s Reading and Writing Instruction in America’s Schools looks at how teaching has changed in the Common Core era. Middle and high...

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 25, 20182 min read
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Does babytalk matter? Word gap wrangle
By the age of three, children growing up in poverty hear 30 million fewer words than the children of educated parents, concluded a study...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 6, 20183 min read
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We’re teaching reading wrong
We’re teaching reading wrong, writes Natalie Wexler in The Atlantic. U.S. schools spend a lot of time on reading skills in the early...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 15, 20182 min read
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