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Seeking Confirmation

Of all the problems with school reform, one of the biggest seems to be the tendency to seek bits...
July 9, 2015 Core Knowledge Foundation
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Tapas-Style Curriculum

Education Week noted recently that there’s an increasing demand for bites of curriculum, as opposed to coherent programs: Instead...
June 29, 2015 Core Knowledge Foundation
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DC: Embarking on a Knowledge Revolution

Over the past few years, an increasing number of DC schools have been revamping their curricula to teach dramatically...
June 25, 2015 Core Knowledge Foundation
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Districts Could Do More for the Most Vulnerable Students

In my last post I highlighted two districts that are equalizing opportunity to learn and increasing teacher collaboration through...
June 23, 2015 Core Knowledge Foundation
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Collaborating on Curriculum and Assessment: Two Districts Lead the Way

“Educators and policymakers must avoid the trap of limiting their discussions to questions which the existing data can readily...
June 18, 2015 Core Knowledge Foundation
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Knowledge Equalizer: Jeff Litt

In my last post, I called for knowledge equality. My hope is all educators and concerned citizens—and policymakers with...
June 15, 2015 Core Knowledge Foundation
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Solving the Grit Problem

Thanks to a new friend, I just read an interesting little article on the struggle to name the set...
June 2, 2015 Core Knowledge Foundation
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A Successful Formula: Shared Curriculum + Shared Responsibility

A shorter version of this post originally appeared on the Thomas B. Fordham Institute’s Flypaper blog. Like pretty much...
May 12, 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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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