Articles from Common Knowledge
These favorite articles, republished from the print and online version of Common Knowledge, offer the Foundation's views on various educational issues.
- After Core Knowledge (May 2005)
- Diane Ravitch Defends the Academic Tradition (Winter 2001)
- You Can't Argue with Geography (Winter 2001)
- Ideas, Convictions, Courage: People Tell the Story of Core Knowledge (Spring 2001)
- Jeanne Chall Shows What Really Works in the Classroom (Fall 2000)
- Lost in Action: Are Time-consuming, Trivializing Activities Displacing the Cultivation of Active Minds? (Fall 2000)
- A Note on the Core Knowledge Tests (Summer 2000)
- Three-Year National Study Confirms Effectiveness of Core Knowledge Sequence (Winter 1999)
- What do Scientists Know about How We Learn? (Winter-Spring 1999)
- Why the Chinese Teach Math Better (Winter 1999)
- Heroes of Education Reform (Fall 1998)
- The Bad News about Discovery Learning (Summer 1998)
- Math Education: What's the Point of a Word Problem? (Spring 1998)
- Core Knowledge Schools Outperform State Test Averages in Maryland Study (Winter/Spring 1998)
- Ten Years Later — Developmentally Appropriate Practice: What Have We Learned? (Winter/Spring 1997)
- What Are We Thinking? What Are We Saying? (Fall 1995)
- Not "either/or" but "both/and": Phonics and Whole Language (Summer 1995)
- Wisdom on Woe: How to Teach the Worst in World History (Winter/Spring 1995)
- The Limits of Thematic Instruction (Fall 1994)
- Teaching World Religions (Spring 1994)
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