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Could be a good D&D topic.

Beth Daugerherty (English dep't) and Sue Constable and Carrie Scheckelhoff (both Education dep't) may be interested in this topic. Previously Sue expressed interest in Maryanne Wolf's work and theories in general, and _Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain_ in particular.

Excerpt: There is a discourse of deficiency around students-what they can't do, how "ill prepared" they are-that gets aired at nearly every faculty meeting. We read it in op-eds online. We hear it in state legislatures and in copier rooms. It is the air we breathe, especially if we teach in community colleges. Certain populations of students are considered more deficient than others. These populations are partitioned by institution type and placement level, rather than by race or class. Community college students and students who have landed in developmental classes are considered the most deficient of all. We blame the high schools they came from and, sometimes implicitly, we blame them.