Minding the Gap
Natalie WexlerA newsletter about education, cognitive science, and fairness from Natalie Wexler, author of The Knowledge Gap.
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Lower Academic Standards Can Perpetuate Unfairness
For the last several years, we’ve been hearing that college students can’t read as much or as deeply as they used to, even at elite schools.
Now, math professors are also complaining. “Some students are five to eight years behind,”...
Don’t Throw Ed Tech Babies Out With the Bathwater
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A backlash against technology in the classroom is sweeping the country, part of a general wave of alarm about data centers, screen addiction, privacy, and the risk that unfettered access to gener...
How Should AI Be Used in Schools?
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Two recent surveys estimate that 70 to 80 percent of secondary students are using AI. While some use it to help them understand schoolwork, 63 percent of the users in one survey said they simply rely on AI t...
Do We Need Another National Reading Panel?
Back in 2000, a panel of reading experts convened by the federal government issued a report that reviewed the research on how children learn to read. The findings of the National Reading Panel helped shift reading instruction away fr...
How Alpha School Teaches Writing
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Alpha School, as I discussed in a previous post, is a fast-growing network of private schools that relies on AI-powered “tutors” to deliver academic learning in just two hours a day, with the remainder...
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Author, Beyond the Science of Reading and The Knowledge Gap; co-author (with Judith Hochman), The Writing Revolution. Host of Season 1 of the Knowledge Matters Podcast.
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