The following links take you to a selection from among the many articles, essays, and speeches of Core Knowledge founder E. D. Hirsch, Jr. (Each link opens a new web page or PDF document.)
A Sense of Belonging
Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Spring 2017
The Problem of Idea Quality, Not “Teacher Quality”
American Educator, Winter 2016-2017
Don’t Blame the Teachers
The Atlantic, September 21, 2016
A Change in Our Thinking About Elementary Education
Remarks on Receiving the James Bryant Conant Award, July 10, 2012
Teaching Content Is Teaching Reading
Principal Magazine, November/December 2010
Plugging the Hole in State Standards
American Educator, Spring 2008
Narrowing the Two Achievement Gaps
Presentation to the 18th Education Trust National Conference, Washington, D.C., November 9, 2007
The Case for Bringing Content into the Language Arts Block and for a Knowledge-Rich Curriculum Core for all Children
American Educator, Spring 2006
Reading Comprehension Requires Knowledge — of Words and of the World
American Educator, Spring, 2003
The Tests We Need and Why We Don’t Quite Have Them
An essay that first appeared in Education Week, February 2, 2000
You Can Always Look It Up — Or Can You?
From the closing address to the 9th Core Knowledge National Conference, Anaheim, California, March 18, 2000
Why Core Knowledge Promotes Social Justice
Convocation address, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, October 6, 1999
Toward a Centrist Curriculum: Two Kinds of Multiculturalism in Elementary School
An essay for the Core Knowledge Foundation, 1992
Fairness and Core Knowledge
An essay for the Core Knowledge Foundation, 1992