Would giving poor students more books solve the achievement gap? Dallas News report on my presentation at NABE
Would giving poor students more books solve the achievement gap?
Matthew Haag/Reporter
mhaag@dallasnews.com
Feb. 16, 2012
DMN reporter Dianne Solis is attending the 41st annual convention of the National Association for Bilingual Education in Dallas this week. About 3,000 educators and students are in attendance, ranging from school principals from Queens to teachers from California to dissertation candidates from North Texas. Many of the attendees came from the Dallas ISD and about half are from Texas.
Solis filed this report from Wednesday night's keynote speech:
Book swap clubs, such as bookmooch.com, are one solution for combating a huge problem, the achievement gap, activist Stephen Krashen , a professor emeritus of the University of Southern California, said Wednesday night. The linguist and educational researcher was a keynote speaker at the 41st annual convention of the
Matthew Haag/Reporter
mhaag@dallasnews.com
Feb. 16, 2012
DMN reporter Dianne Solis is attending the 41st annual convention of the National Association for Bilingual Education in Dallas this week. About 3,000 educators and students are in attendance, ranging from school principals from Queens to teachers from California to dissertation candidates from North Texas. Many of the attendees came from the Dallas ISD and about half are from Texas.
Solis filed this report from Wednesday night's keynote speech:
Book swap clubs, such as bookmooch.com, are one solution for combating a huge problem, the achievement gap, activist Stephen Krashen , a professor emeritus of the University of Southern California, said Wednesday night. The linguist and educational researcher was a keynote speaker at the 41st annual convention of the