Core Knowledge Foundation - Educational Excellence and Equity for All Children

What Your Preschooler Needs to Know:
Read-Alouds to Get Ready for Kindergarten

Activity Book 1
Activities for What Your Preschooler Needs to Know, ages 3–4

Activity Book 2
Activities for What Your Preschooler Needs to Know, ages 4 –5

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Are teachers leaving because of NCLB?

Eduwonkette stimulates a discussion in response to a School Library Journal talkback essay: "No Child Left Behind has done to my school what it has done to untold thousands of urban schools. Our arts programs are gutted, our shop courses are gone, foreign languages are a distant memory." 5.13.08

What do you consider to be the best education blog out there for the ED in '08 Blogger's Choice Award? Our own Core Knowledge Blog was nominated! Results will be posted to the Ed in '08 Web site after the Blogger Summit. For more information about the summit, keep scrolling down! 5.8.08

Recent job postings:

Third Grade Teacher, Lyme, NH 5/9/08
Principal, Broomfield, CO 5/5/08
Elementary Teacher, Prior Lake, MN 4/1/08

Registered Core Knowledge schools may list job openings using our online form. If your school is not already certified by us, please tell us about your school's implementation.

“Precisely because correction is difficult, we should practice it actively and conscientiously. ...Correction is not inherently cruel, unless the teacher makes it so. Students often crave precision: they correct each other if the teacher does not correct them. A teacher’s correction offers the relief of clarity. Young people must learn to assess their own work, but this takes time, study, practice, and guidance.” 5.4.08

• by E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

"A Nation at Risk simply assumed that gaining an academic skill such as reading or reckoning is independent of the specific curricular content through which the skill is taught. This is wrong. ... academic skill is highly dependent on specific relevant knowledge... Wide knowledge and a large vocabulary — the prerequisites to high achievement in high school — are gradual accretions. You cannot gain them by a sudden intensive incursion into high school." 4.23.08

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Nowhere else will you have an opportunity to meet and network with fellow education bloggers, participate in panels, attend workshops, and help tackle some tough questions on the state of education in America. 4.23.08

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Unit submissions for the 2008 Core Knowledge National Conference are due by June 2. Please don't delay!
Accepted unit presenter receives 50% discount on one full conference registration. 3.3.08

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Dedicated to excellence and fairness in early education, the Core Knowledge Foundation is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan organization founded in 1986 by E. D. Hirsch, Jr., professor emeritus at the University of Virginia and author of many acclaimed books including Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know and The Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have Them. The Foundation conducts research on curricula, develops books and other materials for parents and teachers, offers workshops for teachers, and serves as the hub of a growing network of Core Knowledge schools.

As you explore this site, you will find lesson plans, articles, and many other resources to help you use the Core Knowledge Preschool Sequence and Core Knowledge Sequence K–8 in your classroom and school. We invite you to learn more about the model curriculum guidelines developed by the Core Knowledge Foundation, as more schools "share the knowledge," and create . . .

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