Minding the Gap
Natalie WexlerA newsletter about education, cognitive science, and fairness from Natalie Wexler, author of The Knowledge Gap.
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More Test-Based Accountability? It's Complicated
One popular explanation for declining test scores has been, basically, “because Covid.” But that analysis has been undercut by recent data underlining the fact that the decline has been going on since at least 2015, well before the p...
A New Way To Bring Teaching in Line With Cognitive Science
There are days when I feel we’re making real progress in aligning teaching with cognitive science—particularly, moving away from ineffective skills-focused reading comprehension instruction and towards an approach that centers knowle...
The Growth vs. Proficiency Debate
A recent analysis of millions of student test scores has declared that Washington, D.C., is “leading the nation.” Using a methodology that allows comparisons between scores from different state tests, a prestigious team of researcher...
How Can Teachers Find Clarity in a Sea of Confusing Data?
What’s the main reason we don’t see more evidence-based instruction in schools? According to education researcher David Griffith, as quoted in The 74, it’s the “chaotic information environment that the typical teacher is subject to.”...
Do Knowledge-Building Curricula Really Lack Whole Books?
I’ve written previously about the apparent trend away from assigning whole books in K-12 classrooms—a trend that has sparked concern. While most of the attention has been focused on the lack of novels in the high school English curri...
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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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