Doug Lemov's field notes

Reflections on teaching, literacy, coaching, and practice.

10.10.13 Self-Critique: Non-Fiction and the Knowledge Deficit

I’ve been wrestling for a while with a series of knowledge deficit questions.  I am a big fan of E.D. Hirsch’s book by the same title and by Daisy Christodoulou’s Seven Myths About Education which if you haven’t read you have to.  Both make the case that while the big gap for low SES students in…