The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America’s Broken Education System — Why Skills Fail
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Author: Natalie Wexler
This episode explores The Knowledge Gap by Natalie Wexler as a systems-level analysis of how curriculum design, testing pressure, and assumptions about reading influence learning, belief, and institutional outcomes.
By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or isolated classroom failures, the episode shows why skills-based reading instruction persists — and how it connects to larger systems of inequality, accountability, cultural capital, and democratic participation…
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