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Ensuring That Practice Makes Perfect: Implications for Children with Learning Disabilities
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Many teacher use the adage “practice makes perfect” to justify large quantities of drill-and-practice activities. Textbook authors use similar reasoning when they provide page after page of the same kind of problems. In the process, the quantitative aspect of practice is overemphasized while the quality of the practice activities suffers.