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Amid a deepening literacy crisis, there’s been a focus on how to close the achievement gap, but Natalie Wexler sees the key problem undermining the American educational system a little differently.
The education author maintains that we can’t truly reach equity in achievement unless we first close “The Knowledge Gap.”
She also argues that, in the rush to embrace the science of reading, some have focused so intently on the need for phonics in the early years that they have overlooked the need for systematic knowledge-building, which is also a core part of structured literacy, as is vocabulary. There’s more to the science of reading than phonics, experts have long suggested.
Wexler is best known for her book “The Knowledge Gap,” but she also has a podcast and
