Kiera Beddes’s Reviews > The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System--and How to Fix it > Status Update

What came first the chicken or the egg? Similarly, the question of this book is what came first…students’ reading problems or their lack of knowledge? Some of the ideas are interesting. Some of it is frustrating. I don’t know if there’s any real answers for schools, but it does make me want to start dumping background knowledge on my nieces.