assume background knowledge they have not been given access to. Wexler therefore concludes that the achievement gap is largely a gap in knowledge rather than skills and supports the adoption of elementary literacy curricula that focus on building knowledge. The Knowledge Gap examines attempts to implement this kind of curriculum in several schools and school districts in the United States and the United Kingdom. Wexler's argument has been compared to that of E.D. Hirsch, an education scholar who has been advancing similar ideas since the 1980s. Wexler’s previous education book, The Writing Revolution (2017), was written with Judith C. Hochman and provides a guide to implementing the method of writing instruction that Hochman developed. In contrast to most other approaches to writing instruction, the method begins at the sentence level and is designed to be embedded in the content of a school’s core curriculum. Wexler has also written three novels: A More Obedient Wife (2007), based on the lives and letters of two early Supreme Court justices and their wives; The Mother Daughter Show (2011), a satire set at an elite Washington, DC private school; and The Observer (2014), set in the early 19th century and based on the life of Eliza Anderson Godefroy, the first American woman to edit a magazine. Selected publications The Knowledge Gap (2019), The Writing Revolution (2017), The Observer (2014), "What Manner of Woman Our Female Editor May Be": Eliza Crawford Anderson and the Baltimore Observer, 1806-1807, 105 Maryland Historical Magazine 100 (Summer 2010) A More Obedient Wife: A Novel of the Early Supreme Court (2007), In The Beginning: The First Three Chief Justices, 154 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1373 (2006) The Case For Love, 75 Am. Scholar 80 (2006) See also List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 6) References Sources Greenhouse, Linda (November 2, 1990). Riding Circuit With Swamps and Yellow Fever, New York Times, at B5. External links 1955 births Living people 21st-century American novelists American women novelists Radcliffe College alumni Alumni of the University of Sussex University of Pennsylvania Law School alumni Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States 21st-century American women writers American women bloggers American bloggers American legal writers Bryn Mawr School people American women non-fiction writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers