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No Progress on Accountability, No Hope for Equity

I try not to give in to despair, but in reading recent recommendations for the reauthorization of ESEA, I...
April 7, 2015 Core Knowledge Foundation
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Reading Recovery Works—Now Let’s Make It Even Better

Reading Recovery is an intensive intervention for first graders who are struggling to learn to read. Although its research...
March 31, 2015 Core Knowledge Foundation
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What’s Working?

Slowly, steadily building the knowledge and capacity of administrators and teachers—that’s what’s working in school systems around the world....
March 24, 2015 Core Knowledge Foundation
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Raising Readers—Not Test Takers

In recent months, Teach Plus had over 1,000 teachers review sample items from PARCC, one of the two testing...
March 18, 2015 Core Knowledge Foundation
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Even TFA Isn’t Boosting Reading Comprehension

Teach for America (TFA) aims to increase student achievement by increasing the quality of teaching. Concerned with the short-term...
March 10, 2015 Core Knowledge Foundation
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Teaching for Retention

In my last post, I described conversations with three teachers that revealed their different views about what teaching is....
March 2, 2015 Core Knowledge Foundation
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Nothing in Common

According to a recent survey, fifty-five percent of Americans believe that the Common Core standards address “sex education, evolution,...
February 24, 2015 Core Knowledge Foundation
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A Plea for Traditional and Multicultural Education—Our Children Deserve Both

By Joy C. Dingle Joy C. Dingle is an independent K–16 education consultant in the Washington, DC, area. She...
February 5, 2015 Core Knowledge Foundation
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Want to Build Knowledge, Skills, and Grit? Assign History Research Papers

By Samantha Wesner Samantha Wesner is the managing editor of The Concord Review, which publishes high school students’ research...
January 28, 2015 Core Knowledge Foundation
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“Et tu, Mrs. McCarthy?”

By Bridgit McCarthy Bridgit McCarthy teaches third grade at New Dimensions, a public charter school in Morganton, North Carolina....
January 22, 2015 Core Knowledge Foundation