Natalie Wexler
Education writer; author of The Knowledge Gap, co-author of The Writing Revolution.
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- Natalie Wexler is an American education writer on literacy and equity.
- In The Knowledge Gap (2019), Wexler argues that reading comprehension depends on background knowledge, not generic skills.
- Wexler co-wrote The Writing Revolution with Judith C.
- Hochman.
- Wexler was a Supreme Court law clerk and lawyer before turning to education writing in 2010.
Key facts
- Education
- AB, Radcliffe (1976); MA, University of Sussex (1977); JD, University of Pennsylvania (1983)1
- Law
- Clerk for Judge Alvin B. Rubin and Justice Byron White; lawyer at Bredhoff & Kaiser1
- Books
- The Writing Revolution (with Judith C. Hochman, 2017 and 2024); The Knowledge Gap (2019); Beyond the Science of Reading (2025)2
- Novels
- A More Obedient Wife (2007); The Mother Daughter Show (2011); The Observer (2014)1
- Newsletter
- Minding the Gap, on Substack2
- Podcast
- Host of Reading Comprehension Revisited, the first season of the Knowledge Matters Podcast2
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