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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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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 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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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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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