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

[Dave Paulson]

Here is a storyify of live-tweets from the Language Gap panel (
http://bit.ly/AAAlxGap) while #AAA2015 was trending on Twitter:

http://bit.ly/StoryifyLxGap

On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Bonnie Urciuoli <burciuol at hamilton.edu>
wrote:

> 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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Dave Paulson
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology
<http://www.temple.edu/anthro/index.html> - Temple University
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Research Fellow, Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture & Society
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