[Linganth] NPR.org - Simple Number, Complex Impact: How Many Words Has A Child Heard?

[Bonnie Urciuoli]

Nor are we the only frustrated skeptics -- here are a few links that popped
up when I googled "criticism of 30 million word gap"
http://www.honeybeeconnection.com/word-gap-woes-heart-hart-risley/
https://radicalscholarship.wordpress.com/2015/02/17/the-word-gap-a-reader/
http://www.learninglandscapes.ca/images/documents/ll-no13/michaels.pdf
http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/20139/do-poor-children-hear-30-million-fewer-words-by-age-3
A look at http://www.uchicagokidshospital.org/physicians/dana-suskind.html
suggests an investment as much entrepreneurial as scholarly.


On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 11:34 AM, <navineri at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Rebecca! The Language & Social Justice Task Group is currently
> drafting a response to send to NPR staff about this.
>
> On Dec 6, 2015, at 6:17 AM, NPR <email at et.npr.org> wrote:
>
> *rcampbe7 at usf.edu <rcampbe7 at usf.edu>* has sent you the following story:
> Simple Number, Complex Impact: How Many Words Has A Child Heard? [image:
> NPR] * Rebecca Campbell thought you would be interested in this story*
> *Message:* All, I just saw NPR picked up the word gap study which was
> debunked at our recent meeting on a few occasions.  Rebecca Campbell (USF) Simple
> Number, Complex Impact: How Many Words Has A Child Heard?
> <http://click.et.npr.org/?qs=f92bfed718365441f1c8a72f13596c26623f95016ad57a0329e62ff49661b0484f9421752a9a914a>
>
> 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.
>
> Read this story
> <http://click.et.npr.org/?qs=f92bfed718365441f1c8a72f13596c26623f95016ad57a0329e62ff49661b0484f9421752a9a914a>
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