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Month: September 2010

Experience Keeps a Dear School

Last June the final report from an IMLS-funded study of public library summer reading programs, The Dominican Study: Public Library Summer Programs Close the Reading Gap, was published. The reading gap refers to the cumulative loss in proficiency that has been observed in students who struggle with reading.  The gap is cumulative because the “summer… Read More Experience Keeps a Dear School

September 29, 2010March 28, 2012 Ray Lyons1 Comment
"It's not the outlandishness of its conclusions that makes something a pseudoscience: lucky guesses, serendipity, bizarre hypotheses, and even an initial gullibility all play a role in science as well. Where pseudosciences fail is in not subjecting their conclusions to a test, in not linking them in a coherent way to other statements which have withstood scrutiny. It’s hard for me to imagine [actress and parapsychology enthusiast] Shirley McClaine, for example, rejecting the reality of some seemingly paranormal event such as a trance channeling merely because there isn’t enough evidence for it, or because there is a better alternative explanation." John Allen Paulos, Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences, 1988, p. 79.

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