Minding the Gap
Natalie WexlerA newsletter about education, cognitive science, and fairness from Natalie Wexler, author of The Knowledge Gap.
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Yes, Writing Does Advance Thinking
As the co-author of a book subtitled “A Guide to Advancing Thinking Through Writing,” I was taken aback to see a recent New York Times guest essay arguing that writing doesn’t actually do that.
The title of the essay is “I’m a Colle...
All Teachers Need to Be Literacy Teachers
We now have a substantial amount of evidence that combining science and social studies with literacy instruction can enhance students’ reading comprehension, along with their content knowledge. (For a review of that evidence, see thi...
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...
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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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