Natalie Wexler is an education writer and the author of The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America’s Broken Education System—and How to Fix It (Avery 2019). She is also the co-author, with Judith C. Hochman, of The Writing Revolution 2.0: A Guide to Advancing Thinking Through Writing in All Subjects and Grades (Jossey-Bass 2024), and the host of “Reading Comprehension Revisited,” a six-episode series for the Knowledge Matters Podcast. Her book Beyond the Science of Reading: Connecting Literacy Instruction to the Science of Learning is forthcoming from ASCD in 2025. Natalie’s articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The American Scholar, and other publications. She has a free Substack newsletter called Minding the Gap, and she lives in Washington, D.C.
