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... See moreMany students no longer arrive at college—even at highly selective, elite colleges—prepared to read books.
…the student told Dames that, at her public high school, she had never been required to read an entire book. She had been assigned excerpts, poetry, and news articles, but not a single book cover to cover.
The anecdote helped explain the change
In the 1960s, Benjamin Bloom had a series of amazing breakthroughs in understanding how kids learn–and how to help them learn faster.
But his methods were impossible to implement in a traditional classroom, so they’ve been ignored. [THREAD]
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