Natalie Wexler on her book The Knowledge Gap which looks at the US education system (8/6/19) by Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

It was just a few years into the education reform movement that journalist Natalie Wexler stumbled across the real explanation for our country's frustrating lack of progress on ensuring every child a high-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. Join us for a discussion of the issues that inspired Natalie’s book “The Knowledge Gap: The hidden cause of America's broken education system--and how to fix it” in this edition of “Leonard Lopate at Large” on WBAI.