<div dir="ltr">Here is a storyify of live-tweets from the Language Gap panel (<a href="http://bit.ly/AAAlxGap">http://bit.ly/AAAlxGap</a>) while #AAA2015 was trending on Twitter: <br><br><a href="http://bit.ly/StoryifyLxGap">http://bit.ly/StoryifyLxGap</a><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Bonnie Urciuoli <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:burciuol@hamilton.edu" target="_blank">burciuol@hamilton.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Nor are we the only frustrated skeptics -- here are a few links that popped up when I googled "criticism of 30 million word gap"<div><a href="http://www.honeybeeconnection.com/word-gap-woes-heart-hart-risley/" target="_blank">http://www.honeybeeconnection.com/word-gap-woes-heart-hart-risley/</a><br></div><div><a href="https://radicalscholarship.wordpress.com/2015/02/17/the-word-gap-a-reader/" target="_blank">https://radicalscholarship.wordpress.com/2015/02/17/the-word-gap-a-reader/</a><br></div><div><a href="http://www.learninglandscapes.ca/images/documents/ll-no13/michaels.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.learninglandscapes.ca/images/documents/ll-no13/michaels.pdf</a><br><a href="http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/20139/do-poor-children-hear-30-million-fewer-words-by-age-3" target="_blank">http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/20139/do-poor-children-hear-30-million-fewer-words-by-age-3</a><br></div><div>A look at <a href="http://www.uchicagokidshospital.org/physicians/dana-suskind.html" target="_blank">http://www.uchicagokidshospital.org/physicians/dana-suskind.html</a> suggests an investment as much entrepreneurial as scholarly.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 11:34 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:navineri@gmail.com" target="_blank">navineri@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div></div><div>Thanks Rebecca! The Language & Social Justice Task Group is currently drafting a response to send to NPR staff about this.</div><div><div><div><br>On Dec 6, 2015, at 6:17 AM, NPR <<a href="mailto:email@et.npr.org" target="_blank">email@et.npr.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<strong>Message:</strong> All,
I just saw NPR picked up the word gap study which was debunked at our recent meeting on a few occasions.
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The Thirty Million Word Initiative, created by University of Chicago Hospital pediatric surgeon Dana Suskind, attempts to close the achievement gap between poorer and more affluent students.
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