kitchen table math, the sequel: NBT

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

NBT

Reid Lyon on dysteachia:

When we look at the kids that are having a tough time learning to read, we went through the statistics: 38% nationally, disaggregate that, 70% kids from poverty and so forth hit the wall ... 95% of those kids are instructional casualties.

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95% of the kids hitting the wall in learning to read are what we called “NBT”: never been taught.

4 comments:

TurbineGuy said...

copycat...

seriously, great minds thing alike.

http://parentalcation.blogspot.com/2007/06/history-and-science-of-code-and.html

I quoted the exact same passage.

Catherine Johnson said...

I got it from you!

Catherine Johnson said...

Of course, a really great mind knows whom to copy.

Catherine Johnson said...

whom?