[MOT2Chat] catching up on 3 & 4

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Catherine,
I very much believe this.  How can teachers bridge the background knowledge gap in our students?  I think that I have students whose parents talk to them less than 10 minutes in a week.  That's a lot of knowledge to make up!
Jan


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From: CATHERINE.SWENSEN at spps.org

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> seems to go hand in hand with the recent posting mentioning what Stephanie
> Harvey said -
> 
> she said we don't have an achievement gap
> "problem" in this country, we have a BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE gap in our
> country and the quicker we get to building our students' background
> knowledge the more successful they will be!"