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K. Sinhahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06181184742206228172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-25863559899918494302013-02-04T21:25:11.211-05:002013-02-04T21:25:11.211-05:00I have just spent endless hours deciding on second...I have just spent endless hours deciding on secondary readings for two new college courses I am teaching to very bright and eager students, most of whom have pretty strong "general learning" (of the kind relevant to what I am teaching). Choosing such readings is really hard. You want to draw students in, engage them in the primary texts, move things along so they will get into some meaty issues in the short span of a semester. But if you choose the wrong readings -- readings whose context is too foreign to them at this stage in their learning -- rather than engage them, pull them in, you'll lose them.<br />And, of course, not all the students in these courses are the same. What will work for some will not work for others.<br />I sympathize with James E. Powell. For all the challenges I face in devising a syllabus, I am not beholden (yet) to some standardized test of skills and content that may not even be relevant to my goals, and my students'. mchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-18937966251819299402013-02-02T00:49:01.075-05:002013-02-02T00:49:01.075-05:00This is kind of snarky. What he is saying is not n...This is kind of snarky. What he is saying is not necessarily widely accepted, certainly not put into practice, so stating the obvious and trying to systematize it becomes a necessary step. That's not trivial. How disadvantaged were the French students? Geez, this is not an academic paper. The guy is trying to get people to open their eyes and consider new approaches.urban legendnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-81692518541568592082013-02-02T00:32:20.841-05:002013-02-02T00:32:20.841-05:00I'm not a Hirsch fan, but on the knowledge thi...I'm not a Hirsch fan, but on the knowledge thing he is pointing at something that I see all the time in my English classes. I've taught in low-performing high schools in Los Angeles for the last seven years. The pre-fab lessons we are directed to use are filled with readings that require substantial background knowledge to be intelligible. The students lack this knowledge. <br /><br />The consultants hired to "support" the use of the pre-fab lessons insist, in so many words, that the content is not relevant. Reading strategies solve all problems. This is bullshit.<br /><br />They push this practice of cursory reading, really scanning, because that's what students have to be good at in order to score well on the multiple-choice tests that the whole country, apparently, has decided are the gold standards of education. This, too, is bullshit.James E. Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03411674142419407865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-70381118826313920132013-02-01T17:39:26.399-05:002013-02-01T17:39:26.399-05:00Re: background knowledge, it's partially Wikip...Re: background knowledge, it's partially Wikipedia and partially that as obvious as it might sound to you and me, in reality a great many educators are actually, truly confused about what influences reading comprehension. On the one hand, Hirsch's contribution here is trivial and obvious. On the other hand, that hasn't prevented the education world from failing to understand or believe it.Paul Brunohttp://twitter.com/mrpabrunonoreply@blogger.com