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	<title>The Core Knowledge Blog &#187; Curriculum</title>
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	<description>Closing the Achievement Gap: Teaching Content</description>
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		<title>Not Either/Or&#8230;It&#8217;s AND</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/28/not-eitheror-its-and/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Curriculum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Educational Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andy Rotherham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Murray]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[curriculum reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At Eduwonk, Andy Rotherham catches up to Russ Whitehurst&#8217;s paper, Don&#8217;t Forget Curriculum.  But he misses the boat when he writes, &#8220;I’m not sure when curriculum and reforms like choice, teacher quality, etc&#8230;became either/or.&#8221;   I&#8217;m not sure where Andy&#8217;s getting that message, but it&#8217;s not from Russ Whitehurst, who went out of his way NOT to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farms, Field Trips and Test Scores</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/26/farms-field-trips-and-test-scores/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/26/farms-field-trips-and-test-scores/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assessment and Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Curriculum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times rode along with 75 Harlem kindergarteners last week on a field trip to the Queens County Farm Museum to  gaze at cows and sheep “not only for a glimpse of rural life, but to rack up extra points on standardized tests.”
New York State’s English and math exams include several questions each [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[education reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sol Stern]]></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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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Silence of the Wonks</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/18/the-silence-of-the-wonks/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/18/the-silence-of-the-wonks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Curriculum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hey, did you hear the one about how curriculum effects are the most impactful ed reform lever? 
Nah, didn&#8217;t think so.  No one did.  If you really want to set tongues wagging in the ed policy world, then do like Nicholas Kristof and write how children are &#8220;cemented into an underclass by third-rate schools&#8221; and blame teachers unions.  [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>Curriculum: More Reform for Less Money</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/15/curriculum-more-reform-for-less-money/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/15/curriculum-more-reform-for-less-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Curriculum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research and Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brookings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Institute of Education Sciences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russ Whitehurst]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Day One, among this blog&#8217;s raisons d&#8217;être has been to say to ed reformers of  every stripe &#8220;don&#8217;t forget curriculum.&#8221;  So it&#8217;s great to hear Brookings&#8217; Russ Whitehurst say the same thing&#8211;and with cold, hard data to back it up.   In his latest Letter on Education, Whitehurst lays out an argument that should catch the eye of everyone [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8216;Scuse Me, Great Nations Comin&#8217; Through!</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/12/scuse-me-great-nations-comin-through/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/12/scuse-me-great-nations-comin-through/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Curriculum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chistopher Columbus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Columbian Exchange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Columbus Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elementary school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social studies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal notes the tradition of honoring Christopher Columbus for sailing the ocean blue in 1492 &#8220;is facing rougher seas than the Niña, Pinta and Santa Maria&#8221; and wonders if the holiday is in danger of sailing off the calendar. 
Columbus&#8217; stature in elementary school classrooms has declined through the years.  The Associated Press notes &#8220;many [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Thomas Sowell Affair</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/09/the-thomas-sowell-affair/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/09/the-thomas-sowell-affair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Curriculum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The letter syndicated columnist Thomas Sowell received from a Michigan 5th grader that prompted him to go off on the boy&#8217;s teacher and the education system at large was not even a school assignment. 
A debate in the comments section of this blog on the merits of having students write letter to prominent people&#8211;the practice blasted by Sowell&#8211;prompted me to put [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>Grading the Common Core Standards</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/08/grading-the-common-core-standards/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/08/grading-the-common-core-standards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assessment and Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Curriculum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Checker Finn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[common core standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fordham Foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NAEP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PISA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TIMSS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A new report from the Fordham Foundation gives a grade of &#8220;B&#8221; to the draft of the proposed &#8220;Common Core&#8221; standards in ELA and Math.
Fordham&#8217;s report, Stars by Which to Navigate: Scanning National and International Standards in 2009, asked subject-matter experts to review the &#8220;content, rigor, and clarity of the first public drafts of the &#8216;Common [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Breaking the ELA Skills vs. Content Logjam</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/05/breaking-the-ela-skills-vs-content-logjam/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/05/breaking-the-ela-skills-vs-content-logjam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Curriculum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Educational Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[common core standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[content standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daniel T. Willingham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ELA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[skills]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If the authors of the draft national standards are unwilling to name specific works of literature children should read, they should at least name specific literary movements, writes Dan Willingham.
The draft ELA standards floated by the Common Core State Standards Initiative focus almost exclusively on skills&#8211;what students should be able to glean from written texts, for [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Work Hard, Be Good</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/09/29/work-hard-be-good/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/09/29/work-hard-be-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Curriculum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diana Senechal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[group work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KIPP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Schools should stop telling children to be nice and start teaching them to be good.
So writes Diana Senechal at DoubleX.  Reviewing Charles Murray&#8217;s recent book Real Education, she seizes on an unremarked upon quote in which the controversial author observes that schools &#8220;tell children to be nice but not how to be good. It tells children to be [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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