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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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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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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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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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Smarter Balanced Confuses Fairness and Validity

Over the past two weeks, we’ve looked the ETS guidelines for fair assessments that PARCC adopted, as well as...
October 15, 2014 Core Knowledge Foundation