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	<title>The Core Knowledge Blog &#187; Core Knowledge School</title>
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	<description>Closing the Achievement Gap: Teaching Content</description>
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		<title>Top CK School Wants Charter Cap Lifted</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/19/top-ck-school-wants-charter-cap-lifted/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/19/top-ck-school-wants-charter-cap-lifted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Carl C. Icahn Charter School, a Core Knowledge School in the South Bronx, had 99 percent of its third- through eighth-graders score at or above grade level this year&#8217;s state math exams, while 94 percent of kids pass the state&#8217;s reading test.  The New York Post notes that three more Icahn schools have opened and three more are planned.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Schools &#8220;Avoid False Choices&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/13/good-schools-avoid-false-choices/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/13/good-schools-avoid-false-choices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Karin Chenoweth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[phonics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PS 124]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Valarie Lewis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[whole language]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Whole language or phonics?  Skills or content?  Equity or excellence? In visits to successful schools, Karin Chenoweth has &#8220;been struck by how free they are from the frustrating controversies other schools get mired in.&#8221;   Chenoweth who works for the Education Trust, writes  in Education Week  that high-achieving schools with significant populations of low-income children &#8221;tend to avoid questions about the philosophy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kudos to P.S. 124</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/08/26/kudos-to-p-s-124/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/08/26/kudos-to-p-s-124/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Core Knowledge School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education trust]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[P.S. 124]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Valarie Lewis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[New York City&#8217;s P.S. 124, an Official Core Knowledge School, is profiled in the Christian Science Monitor as an example of how to build sustainable success with low-SES  students&#8211;even on a tight budget.
Ten years ago, the school won a three-year, $784,000 state grant to carry out a plan for comprehensive reform. Rather than looking for money to reduce class size or [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Core Knowledge a Difference Maker in Colorado Charter Schools?</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/06/19/core-knowledge-a-difference-maker-in-colorado-charter-schools/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/06/19/core-knowledge-a-difference-maker-in-colorado-charter-schools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Core Knowledge School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Curriculum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charter schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[core knowledge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Much sturm und drang over this week&#8217;s Stanford University study, which indicates charter schools nationwide are not performing as well as traditional public-schools.  Among the bright spots, however, were charters in Colorado, which the study says &#8221;demonstrated significantly higher learning gains for charter school students than would have occurred in traditional schools.&#8221;
What&#8217;s in Colorado&#8217;s special sauce?
The Colorado [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goal Standard</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/05/21/goal-standard/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/05/21/goal-standard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 13:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assessment and Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Core Knowledge School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diana Senechal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[goal-setting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[joanne jacobs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Run, don&#8217;t walk, over to Joanne Jacobs where the talented Diana Senechal is guest-blogging for Joanne between now and May 29.  Diana, a teacher at a Core Knowledge school in NYC, has been a frequent contributor here on the Core Knowledge Blog and one of the more original and thoughtful classroom observers in the edusphere wherever her comments appear.
Check out [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>CK School is NYC&#8217;s Top Charter</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/04/14/ck-school-is-nycs-top-charter/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/04/14/ck-school-is-nycs-top-charter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Core Knowledge School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carl Icahn Charter School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Litt]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Carl C. Icahn Charter School in the Bronx was New York City&#8217;s toughest charter school to get into this year.  The school had spots for less than 3% of its 868 applicants, the Daily News reports.  On last year&#8217;s state ELA test, 85.1% of students were proficient, more than double the rate of the surrounding district&#8211;as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Linda Darling-Hammond Gives Props to Core Knowledge</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/02/20/linda-darling-hammond-gives-props-to-core-knowledge/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/02/20/linda-darling-hammond-gives-props-to-core-knowledge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Core Knowledge School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[21st century skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[content knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Core Knowledge schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linda Darling-Hammond]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tout le blogs, following Politics K-12&#8217;s lead, note that Linda Darling-Hammond will not be joining the Obama administration as many expected, but has instead opted to remain at Stanford.  Another interesting LDH note appeared in the form of a letter to the editor of this morning&#8217;s Boston Globe. Titled &#8220;Knowledge, skills are not mutually exclusive goals&#8221; Darling-Hammond [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alfie Kohn Smackdown</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/02/02/alfie-kohn-smackdown/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/02/02/alfie-kohn-smackdown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Core Knowledge School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research and Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alfie Kohn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Willingham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homework]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[praise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-discipline]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dan Willingham does a takedown of all-purpose education pundit Alfie Kohn over at Britannica Blog.  Dan cheekily titles his piece &#8220;Alfie Kohn is Bad For You and Dangerous for Your Children&#8221; to lampoon Kohn&#8217;s stock-in-trade of broad-brush oversimplification.  He details how Kohn &#8221;consistently makes factual errors, oversimplifies the literature that he seeks to explain, and commits logical fallacies.&#8221;
Kohn specializes in attacking [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Kudos to Two Great Core Knowledge Schools</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/12/09/kudos-to-two-great-core-knowledge-schools/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/12/09/kudos-to-two-great-core-knowledge-schools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Core Knowledge School]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s going on in Colorado?  Ridgeview Classical Charter Schools ranks No. 15 on U.S. News&#8217; list of the 100 best high schools in the U.S.  The school uses the Core Knowledge curriculum K-8, and a traditional, Classical-Liberal curriculum in the high school.  &#8220;The charter school, which opened in 2001, has been at the top of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Elvis Is In the Building</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/11/07/elvis-is-in-the-building/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/11/07/elvis-is-in-the-building/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Core Knowledge School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social studies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Hats off to the Traut Core Knowledge Elementary School in Ft. Collins, Colorado, where 6th graders transformed their school gym into a living &#8220;wax museum&#8221; to show off what they learned about various historic people.  The kids created displays, gave presentations to classmates and with the help of parent volunteers, dressed up as the person for others to see. 
The [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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