Education Writer; Senior Contributor, Forbes.com; Author, Beyond the Science of Reading: Connecting Literacy Instruction to the Science of Learning (2025), "Why So Many Kids Struggle to Learn: Teachers Continue to be Trained in Ways That Ignore the Findings of Cognitive Science" (2021, The American Scholar), “Building Knowledge: What an Elementary Curriculum Should Do” (2020, American Educator), The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System—And How to Fix It (2019); Co-Author, The Writing Revolution: A Guide to Advancing Thinking Through Writing in All Subjects and Grades (2017)