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Schools in Florida and across the nation are working to address learning loss from pandemic disruptions. Early predictions suggested the spring closures may cost students a third of a year’s learning gains in reading. While national assessments of students this fall revealed a less dire picture, there are still concerns that setbacks in reading may impact our most vulnerable students, such as those from low-income families or those already performing below grade level. Given the importance of reading, schools may be tempted to double down on teaching reading skills to compensate for disrupt...

Time. i write in my book back to the post war era and the economy where people begin to move to the coast and build second homes and beach houses. as people move, their expectations grow. those include things like is the federal government going to contribute to build a bridge or road or repair areas that have been damaged by storms. lawmakers have added all these programs to the mix. largely because of the expectation of homeowners that also happen to be voters, right that government ought to be contributing to this risky geography. >> who bares the financial responsibility for the impact of

Content and that school isn't teaching content. that's when i realized, i had no idea what i was looking at. most people think schools are actually trying to build kids' knowledge, then i learned that wasn't even the objective. >> if our knowledge gaps are compounded early on. logically, it makes sense that in order to fix the knowledge gap, you have to start at the beginning of the education system. so how critical are universal pre-k systems? >> preschool programs are really important, good quality ones. there is a well-known thing called preschool fade out.

>> income inequality is one of the largest factors driving the academic achievement gap. not only leading to unequal investment and even more unequal adult lives in the future. joining us now, author of the new book "the knowledge gap." natalie, good morning. congratulations on the book. what is the hidden factor here? so much time, money and effort has been spent on education. we don't seem to be getting terribly far. >> we've been assuming that this gap, which is often called the achievement gap is a gap of stills. the gap is between those towards

Suggest looking forward? >> that is an interesting question, the government has little effect. it is more a matter of local control. when the federal government has gotten involved, it hasn't always turned out that well. start talking about this problem and how we are not getting kids access to knowledge, the kids that need it the most. and that is underlying a lot of failures to the approach. we have to understand why what we have been doing srnt working. >> the book called the knowledge gap. thank you for being here. >> thank you very much.