Minding the Gap
Natalie WexlerA newsletter about education, cognitive science, and fairness from Natalie Wexler, author of The Knowledge Gap.
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New Texas Social Studies Standards Are Content-Specific but Divisive
Just in time for the nation’s 250th birthday, the Texas State Board of Education has approved new social studies standards that are designed to foster patriotism—and are already exacerbating partisan division.
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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.”...
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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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