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[quote=Anonymous]This is fascinating, and great news!   My kids are older.  In early ES in DCPS they got only 45-60 mins of “ELA” per day.  That was supposed to cover both reading and writing.  And in 1st and 2nd there was this big focus on “stamina reading” which meant that the kids were supposed to read leveled books independently for increasingly long periods of time (which of course came out of the time allotted for ELA instruction).  My kids were behind in reading from a national standards perspective but above the average in their class (this was not a title 1 school), which seemed problematic to me but the school dismissed as other schools being too focused on testing.  I often wondered how the kids were taught when they spent so much time quietly doing “stamina” reading on their own.  After listening to the podcast I’m understanding better what was going on in their classroom during those years and why they seemed to have so many friends who struggled with reading, were put on meds to try to fix it, etc. [/quote]

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