Teach Effectively!

Over on ms_teacher, a middle school teacher has an intriguing post about differentiating between someone who cannot do something and someone who can do that something but does not do it. The example she uses, which she drew from the recent debate at Edspresso (”Nancy Creech vs. Ken De Rosa on Whole Language”), makes the argument that those who can read but don’t read are functionally equivalent to those who cannot read.
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