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Thirty Million Words––and Even More Functional Relations: a Review of Suskind’s Thirty Million Words - PMC

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In the mid 1990s, I met with the President of the Chicago Board of Education. I photocopied portions of a new book—Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children (Hart & Risley, 1995)—and launched into a discussion of the data. I explained that there were differences in language skills that were likely responsible for the success, or lack thereof, of children within the school district’s standard curriculum. We discussed how this had two implications. First, the standard curriculum may produce different results for children entering with different repertoires.…

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