There’s no shortage of journalism focusing on education. But little of it has examined a fundamental question: what gets taught in our schools and how?
need to be taught as a set of skills—that kids will pick it up naturally—and that comprehension· Even when journalists do get into classrooms—or schools—they may shy away from reporting on what they see, particularly at the high school level. At another panel at the education writers’ conference, I asked a journalist who had writtenabout high-poverty high schools if she had found that kids arrive with crippling gaps in their knowledge.
All of this is to say: it’s complicated—so complicated, in fact, that I spent the last several years researching and writingabout it. And although I had visited many classrooms before I started working on my book, I later realized I had no idea what I’d been looking at. I only put the pieces together when, through serendipity, I met a veteran educator who began explaining it to me.
That’s not to discourage other education journalists from tackling the subject of what gets taught and how. It may be complicated, but if they can figure it out they’ll have a much clearer picture of the root causes of many of our education problems—and so will their readers.Natalie Wexler is the author of"The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System—and How to Fix It," forthcoming from Avery in August 2019.
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