Amy Ly’s Reviews > The Knowledge Deficit: Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children – Why Curriculum Matters: Essential Tools for Parents and Teachers to Build Reading Comprehension > Status Update

guessing I'm about 100 pages in and it's very interesting how their main argument is focusing on the need for a diverse knowledge base ("background knowledge") in order for students to be able to become better readers and learners. It then begs the question of what's worthy of being taught at schools, which is...a very controversial issue probably.