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Re:Why can't America teach writing? by Solvency on Saturday September 16, 2023 @06:15PM (#37539323)
"America isn’t good at teaching anything that requires intensive practice and repetition."

I thought the number one criticism of American teaching is rote memorization and rote repetition and so kids leave with zero deep understanding of what they just did. Just muscle memory that fades.

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Re:Why can't America teach writing? by dragonwriter on Saturday September 16, 2023 @06:21PM (#37539359)
AFAIK, rote memorization and rote repetition is not effective intensive practice and repetition.

Effective intensive practice and repetition involves doing the applying the same skill repeatedly in different contexts and variations, and particularly in different complex tasks which combine it in different ways with other skills.

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