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	<title>The Core Knowledge Blog &#187; Core Knowledge</title>
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	<description>Closing the Achievement Gap: Teaching Content</description>
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		<title>Are You Smarter Than a 1954 8th Grader?</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/10/are-you-smarter-than-a-1954-8th-grader/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/10/are-you-smarter-than-a-1954-8th-grader/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quick.  How many current members of the President&#8217;s Cabinet can you name?  OK, how many Cabinet positions can you name, even if you don&#8217;t know the person in the office right now?  You know the 1st and 2nd Amendments, right?  How about No. 3 through 23?  Check out the 98 and 1/2 grade earned on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Common Knowledge Newsletter</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/01/common-knowledge-newsletter/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/01/common-knowledge-newsletter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Common Knowledge newsletter, which digests the news about curriculum and teaching, education policy and other subjects of interest to the Core Knowedge community, is published each Friday during the school year.  Here&#8217;s this week&#8217;s newsletter. To subscribe and receive Common Knowledge via email, click here.
Core Knowledge
E. D. Hirsch’s Curriculum for Democracy
City Journal
If the Obama administration truly wants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Core Knowledge Quiz: American Symbols and Icons</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/28/core-knowledge-quiz-american-symbols-and-icons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Core Knowledge]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this day in 1886, the Statue of Liberty was dedicated by President Grover Cleveland at a ceremony in New York harbor.  This week&#8217;s Core Knowledge Quiz is about the Statue of Liberty and other American symbols.  In schools usng the Core Knowledge Sequence, children begin to recognize and become familiar with the Statue of Liberty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Most Important Education Reformer of the Last Century&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/22/the-most-important-education-reformer-of-the-last-century/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/22/the-most-important-education-reformer-of-the-last-century/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Core Knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Curriculum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Educational Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E. D. Hirsch]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Update:  In the comments to this post, Paul Hoss questions Sol Stern giving credit to Hirsch for Massachusetts's Education Reform Act.  Stern responds below.]
In the new City Journal, Sol Stern files a comprehensive dispatch on the career of E.D. Hirsch, Jr. and judges the Core Knowledge founder to be &#8220;the most important education reformer of the last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Core Knowledge Quiz: Inventors and Inventions</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/20/core-knowledge-quiz-inventors-and-inventions/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/20/core-knowledge-quiz-inventors-and-inventions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[130 years ago tomorrow, Thomas Alva Edison perfected the incandescent lightbulb.  How much do you know about inventors and inventions?  Here&#8217;s this week&#8217;s Core Knowledge Quiz:
1. Which of the following did Edison NOT invent or perfect: the phonograph, the motion picture camera, the stock ticker, or the microphone?
2. The earliest form of writing, using clay tablets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Knew?</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/19/who-knew/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/19/who-knew/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Core Knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education blogs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The blog Online Schools has compiled a list of &#8220;50 Excellent Blogs About Education Reform&#8221; and lists the Core Knowledge Blog.  The most surprising news: there are actually 50 blogs about ed reform.
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		<title>Core Knowledge Quiz: The Age of Exploration</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/12/core-knowledge-quiz-the-age-of-exploration/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/12/core-knowledge-quiz-the-age-of-exploration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Who was the first explorer to circumnavigate the world?
2. What is a caravel?  Describe its significance
3.  Which Spanish explorer supposedly sought the Fountain of Youth and in the process landed in Florida?
4. If Columbus “discovered” America, why are the continents of the Western Hemisphere called North and South America and not North and South Columbia?
5. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>First Monday in October</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/05/first-monday-in-october/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/05/first-monday-in-october/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Core Knowledge]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first Monday in October is the traditional start of the new term of the U.S. Supreme Court.  Teachers (and a few adults) might wish to see how much their students know about the highest court in the land.
1. The Supreme Court is part of which branch of the government?
2. How are Supreme Court justices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E.D. Hirsch on the Air</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/01/e-d-hirsch-on-the-air/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/01/e-d-hirsch-on-the-air/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Core Knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E. D. Hirsch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Making of Americans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re online (or live in the Northeast and by a radio) at 1pm ET this afternoon, E.D. Hirsch will be on WAMC-FM/Albany the Northeast&#8217;s NPR station talking about his new book The Making of Americans.  Listen here.   There&#8217;s also a Hirsch essay on &#8220;How Schools Fail Democracy&#8221; in the Chronicle of Higher Education:
Too many Americans [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fanaticism, Factions and SAT Scores</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/09/24/fanaticism-factions-and-sat-scores/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/09/24/fanaticism-factions-and-sat-scores/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>E. D. Hirsch, Jr.</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[common schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E. D. Hirsch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[incivility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[test scores]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Ed. Note:  A version of this essay appears in today&#8217;s edition of  The New York Daily News.  Both are based on ideas in E.D. Hirsch&#8217;s new book The Making of Americans)
In town hall meetings and the Internet people address fellow citizens with whom they disagree as though they were dangerous creatures from another planet.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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