The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America’s Broken Education System–and How to Fix it - Natalie Wexler Audiobook

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  jkdmanaz
  May 13th, 2023
  

  Flawed premise.
  The US educational system has been a tremendous success. It does precisely what it was designed to do.
  Perhaps the problem is in the ridiculous idea that it is designed to do what PR campaigns claim.
  If you wish to know what the true goal is, simply look at the results.

  The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System--and How to Fix it - Natalie Wexler
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  eyeballs
  May 13th, 2023
  

  jkdmanaz

  So in other words you are a GROOMER

  The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System--and How to Fix it - Natalie Wexler
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  emtpeui
  May 14th, 2023
  

  I haven’t listened to this yet, but I probably will.

  I’ve read some statements by Daniel T. Willingham that are similar to the argument that this book seems to be aiming at. The idea is that early education in the USA spends almost all of the instruction hours on reading skills where the knowledge is treated as incidental, not the goal of learning. This is because there’s a huge focus on getting kids reading, and a harder push for reading has translated into more hours for reading instruction. The problem is that reading comprehension is only partly reading “skills”, a lot of it is knowledge about the subject you’re reading about. So, around 4th grade when kids start doing real reading, you find that lower-income kids who were doing well in reading skills in lower grades drop off in reading performance because schools weren’t preparing them with the knowledge they needed. Willingham’s position is that schools would probably be better off spending fewer hours on reading skill and more hours on knowledge instruction, which would focus more on oral instruction during the early years when kids can’t read very well yet.

  The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System--and How to Fix it - Natalie Wexler
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  jkdmanaz
  July 29th, 2023
  

  This ignores the elephant in the room - “school” serves only to create drones for the state and its corporate masters. Until about 150 years ago, this country was exceptionally literate. A 9 or 10 year old child reading English, Greek, and Latin was not unusual. Mothers taught their children, watching them and guiding them to grow in their natural gifts. Tutors were hired where it was financially possible. Tutors were beholden to their employers to pass on the values the parents held. People were expected to become truly independent and rational. Abolish all public school and in a couple generations, we have a chance of being as educated and creative as those who fought for American independence or kicked off the industrial revolution.

  The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System--and How to Fix it - Natalie Wexler

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