Comments on: And While You’re At It, Drop Off a Copy of “The Knowledge Deficit”… http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/06/24/and-while-youre-at-it-drop-off-a-copy-of-the-knowledge-deficit/ Closing the Achievement Gap: Teaching Content Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:59:33 -0600 hourly 1 By: Matt http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/06/24/and-while-youre-at-it-drop-off-a-copy-of-the-knowledge-deficit/comment-page-1/#comment-7131 Matt Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:32:06 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=2893#comment-7131 The challenge here is that most teachers and most educators (at least that I regularly interact with) do not believe this. They believe that reading is a skill that you can teach separate of knowledge and content. They believe that good readers are able to read anything no matter what it is based on. How do we change these core beliefs? Personally, I'd like to give these teachers a reading test using some of the articles I had to read in my graduate biochemistry classes. Anyone else think this would be fun? The challenge here is that most teachers and most educators (at least that I regularly interact with) do not believe this. They believe that reading is a skill that you can teach separate of knowledge and content. They believe that good readers are able to read anything no matter what it is based on. How do we change these core beliefs?

Personally, I’d like to give these teachers a reading test using some of the articles I had to read in my graduate biochemistry classes. Anyone else think this would be fun?

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