Natalie Wexler

**Natalie L. Wexler** marubuciya ce ‘yar Amurka wadda ta mayar da hankali kan batutuwan karatu da daidaito a ilimi.

## Tarihi da aiki
*Wexler ta kammala karatu a Makarantar Bryn Mawr da ke Baltimore da kuma Jami’ar Radcliffe (A.B. 1976, magna cum laude), inda ta yi rubuce-rubuce ga jaridar Harvard Crimson. Bayan kammala jami’a ta yi aiki a matsayin ‘yar jarida a Jaridar Winston-Salem Journal*.

Wexler kuma tana da digiri daga Jami'ar Sussex (Master of Arts 1977), da Jami'ar Pennsylvania Law School (Juris Doctor 1983), inda ta yi aiki a matsayin babban edita na Jami'ar Penn State Law Review . Bayan kammala karatunta a makarantar shari'a, ta yi aiki a matsayin magatakarda ga Alkalin Alvin Benjamin Rubin na Kotun daukaka kara ta Amurka don da'ira ta biyar, sannan kuma ga Mataimakin Mai Shari'a Byron R. White na Kotun Koli ta Amurka. Bayan aikinta, ta yi aiki a Bredhoff & Kaiser a Washington, DC. Daga baya ta yi aiki a matsayin mataimakiyar edita na jerin littattafai takwas The Documentary History of the Supreme Court, 1789-1800.

Wexler ya rubuta labarai da litattafai don wallafe-wallafe da yawa, gami da *New York Times*,  The Atlantic,  da *Washington Post*.  Da farko a shekara ta 2010 ta mayar da hankali ga rubuce-rubucen ilimi kuma ta yi aiki a matsayin editan ilimi na gidan yanar gizon Greater Greater Washington na shekaru da yawa. A halin yanzu babban mai ba da gudummawa ne ga Forbes.com tana mai da hankali kan ilimi. An yi mata tambayoyi a yawancin shirye-shiryen talabijin da rediyo da kwasfan fayiloli, gami da *Morning Joe*  da NPR's On Point  da *1A*.

A shekara ta 1986, ta auri James Feldman, lauya wanda ya kasance magatakarda na Kotun Koli ga Mai Shari'a William J. Brennan . 

## ''Rashin Ilimi''
Littafin Wexler na farko wanda ba na almara ba ne a matsayin marubuci mai zaman kansa, The Knowledge Gap (2019), ya magance gibin nasarar da aka samu tsakanin yara a makaranta a kan mafi girma da ƙananan iyakar sikelin zamantakewa da tattalin arziki.  Wexler ya yi jayayya cewa, musamman a makarantun firamare, ana koyar da fahimtar karatu a matsayin saitin ƙwarewar da za a iya samu da gwadawa ta hanyar darussan kamar "neman babban ra'ayin," yayin da a zahiri fahimtar ta dogara da ilimin asali da ƙamus na mai karatu. Wexler ya ki amincewa da ra'ayin cewa fahimtar karatu "za a iya koyar da ita ta hanyar da ba ta da alaƙa da abun ciki" kuma yana jayayya cewa karuwar lokacin da aka ba da gudummawa ga ayyukan fahimtar ƙwarewa a makarantu ya cika koyarwar tsarin ilimi. Yara masu daraja suna da damar samun ƙarin ilimin ilimi da ƙamus a waje da makaranta, yayin da yara da yawa marasa daraja suka isa makarantar sakandare ba tare da shiri ba don karantawa da fahimtar matani waɗanda ke ɗaukar ilimin da ba a ba su damar shiga ba. Saboda haka Wexler ya kammala cewa gibin nasarar ya fi zama gibin ilimi maimakon ƙwarewa kuma yana tallafawa karɓar tsarin karatun firamare wanda ke mai da hankali kan gina ilimi. **'Rashin Ilimi**' yana nazarin ƙoƙarin aiwatar da irin wannan tsarin karatu a makarantu da gundumomin makaranta da yawa a Amurka da Ingila. An kwatanta gardamar Wexler da ta E.D. Hirsch, masanin ilimi wanda ke ci gaba da irin wannan ra'ayi tun daga shekarun 1980. 

Littafin ilimi na Wexler na baya, The Writing Revolution (2017), an rubuta shi tare da Judith C. Hochman kuma yana ba da jagora don aiwatar da hanyar rubuce-rubuce da Hochman ya haɓaka. Ya bambanta da yawancin sauran hanyoyin rubuce-rubuce na koyarwa, hanyar ta fara ne a matakin jumla kuma an tsara ta don a saka ta cikin abubuwan da ke cikin tsarin karatun makarantar. 

Wexler ya kuma rubuta litattafai uku: A More Obedient Wife (2007), wanda ya dogara da rayuwar da wasiƙu na alƙalai biyu na Kotun Koli da matansu; The Mother Daughter Show (2011), satire da aka kafa a wata babbar makarantar Washington, DC;  da The Observer (2014), wanda aka kafa a farkon karni na 19 kuma ya dogara da rayuwa ta Eliza Anderson Godefroy, mace ta farko ta Amurka da ta shirya mujallar.

## Littattafan da aka zaɓa
**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)

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