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Knowledge For Literacy

By Marilyn Jager Adams Marilyn Jager Adams, a visiting scholar in the Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences Department of Brown...

May 18, 2015 Core Knowledge Foundation
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An appraisal of Core Knowledge Language Arts

By Ilene Shafran Ilene Shafran is a 2nd-grade teacher at PS 34 in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. This appraisal was originally published...

April 21, 2015 Core Knowledge Foundation
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Reading Comprehension: There’s No Workaround for Knowledge

By Greg Ashman Greg Ashman is a teacher in Australia. Supported by his school (but not necessarily representing its views), he...

April 13, 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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Wanted: A District with the Courage to Close the Gap

I’m not one to do New Year’s resolutions—why set myself up for failure? But I do like to take...

January 8, 2015 Core Knowledge Foundation
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Exceeding Expectations in Louisiana

By Debbie Jenkins Debbie Jenkins is the elementary curriculum and instruction supervisor of Bogalusa City Schools in Louisiana. This...

October 31, 2014 Core Knowledge Foundation
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New Leaders in Literacy

It used to be that advocating for building broad knowledge with a content-rich curriculum in the early grades was...

October 22, 2014 Core Knowledge Foundation
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Reading Test Developers Call Knowledge a Source of Bias

You might expect to see a headline like this in the Onion, but you won’t. The Onion can’t run...

October 1, 2014 Core Knowledge Foundation

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