The word gap

• howard mcsweeney1

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  21 April 2018     11:01342735
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  The same situation here where children from poorer backgrounds read less and when it comes to exams they struggle to understand all the questions.
  
  
  https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/10/american-kids-are-starving-for-words/381552/
• Guest 1535

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  23 April 2018     21:39342839
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  If only everyone could be kind and honest what a better world we would be in.
• howard mcsweeney1

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  23 April 2018     22:13342840
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  I was about to answer your lengthy and interesting post hand rolling finest Virginia tobacco then you chose to delete it, the mind boggles.
• howard mcsweeney1

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  24 April 2018     16:16342874
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  Now we find that most can't tell the time on a traditional clock.
  
  
  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2018/04/24/schools-removing-analogue-clocks-exam-halls-teenagers-unable/