Pobierz Epub The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America's
Broken Education System - and How to Fix It
By Natalie Wexler
The untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis--and the seemingly
endless cycle of multigenerational poverty. It was only after years within the
education reform movement that Natalie Wexler stumbled across a hidden
explanation for our country's frustrating lack of progress when it comes to providing
every child with a quality education. The problem wasn't one of the usual scapegoats:
lazy teachers, shoddy facilities, lack of accountability. It was something no one was
talking about: the elementary school curriculum's intense focus on decontextualized
reading comprehension "skills" at the expense of actual knowledge. In the tradition of
Dale Russakoff's The Prize and Dana Goldstein's The Teacher Wars, Wexler brings
together history, research, and compelling characters to pull back the curtain on this
fundamental flaw in our education system--one that fellow reformers, journalists,
and policymakers have long overlooked, and of which the general public, including
