Today with natalie to discuss her brandnew book the knowledge gap the hitting cause of the broken Education System and how to fix it. Welcome. Im delighted to be here with you. Tell me about why you wrote this book in your inspiration. I live in dc i was writing about educational Reform Efforts here of which there were many and also somewhat involved in the Education Reform Movement on the board of the Charter School and i became fascinated because i think partly education is so important it is our best hope to address in equity in society to break the cycle of multi generational poverty and what also was interesting to me but there was another story which is what happened when you get to high School Everything falls apart everything approves at the middle school and elementary level to go to the classroom but then in high school its a different picture and the scores were not improving. And i could not understand why although there has been a lot of attention. So what i stumbled upon
Education Reform Efforts and involved in the Education Reform Movement and the Charter Schools i was fascinated partly because education is so important and it is our best hope to address inequities in society of multi generational poverty but there was a mystery i wanted to solve is what happened when kids go to high school and falls apart and then i will go to classrooms but in the High School Classrooms its a different picture and scores were not improving to understand this problem. So what i stumbled upon i cannot say i solve the mystery myself but i stumbled upon the fact that the real problem that have become so apparent in high school so once i realized all of the research i had done with those Panel Discussions i had never heard the mention of the problem that somebody had to try to get that issue into the Public Education communication because that is a problem we are talking about we cannot fix them unless we address that problem. Can you describe for people who are not usua
The kids all looked eager and engage that when we went to High School Classrooms it was a different picture. No one seems to understand why but there has been a lot of attention on this high School Problem so i stumbled upon and i cant say i solve this mystery myself i stumbled upon the fact that the problems that become so apparent in high school is the way we teach in Elementary School. Can you describe for people who were not usually knowing what is a content rich curriculum look like . Guest first of all it focuses on content rather than comprehension, reading comp should mention comp ranch and skills which really is a universal approach in this country to Elementary Education. He spent a lot of time on reading especially in highstakes math test 20 years ago now and reading that kids are doing is not designed to build their knowledge of that or anything in particular. The ideas idea is to get them to master skills like finding a main idea or making an inference and the theory is he
Just before we recess i would like to Say Something back i want to remind my colleagues i would like to stay something for the record. I want to remind my colleagues. Within 14 days. Following the last day of the hearing. They must address the subject matter of the hearing and only a member are divided. Documents are limited to 50 pages each. That will be incorporated into the record. You must provide to the community clerk within the prior timeframe. Recognized the years from now no longer work. The Ranking Member is here joining us. I would now begin by addressing our witnesses for the second pile. The commissioner of education is a former Elementary School principal. I used to visit his school. I was appointed associate education commissioner in 2012. Before becoming the commissioner of education in 2018. It is a native inquiry. Since 2012. She is the first woman to be elected president of 1826. For 23 years. She is an advocate for community engagement. She has a degree in Elementar
Would like to Say Something back i want to remind my colleagues i would like to stay something for the record. I want to remind my colleagues. Within 14 days. Following the last day of the hearing. They must address the subject matter of the hearing and only a member are divided. Documents are limited to 50 pages each. That will be incorporated into the record. You must provide to the community clerk within the prior timeframe. Recognized the years from now no longer work. The Ranking Member is here joining us. I would now begin by addressing our witnesses for the second pile. The commissioner of education is a former Elementary School principal. I used to visit his school. I was appointed associate education commissioner in 2012. Before becoming the commissioner of education in 2018. It is a native inquiry. Since 2012. She is the first woman to be elected president of 1826. For 23 years. She is an advocate for community engagement. She has a degree in Elementary Education from the uni