The knowledge gap the hidden cause of America's broken education system--and how to fix it
"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...
| Main Author: | Wexler, Natalie (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. I, The way we teach now: all you need is skills :
- The water they've been swimming in
- A problem hiding in plain sight
- Everything was surprising and novel
- The reading wars
- Unbalanced literacy
- Billions for education reform, but barely a cent for knowledge
- Pt. II, How we got here : the history behind the content-free curriculum :
- EĢmile meets the Common Core
- Politics and the quest for content
- Pt. III, How we can change : creating and delivering content-focused curriculum :
- The Common Cor: new life for knowledge, or another nail in its coffin?
- No more jackpot standards
- Don't forget to write
- Scaling up : can it be done?.