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	<title>The Core Knowledge Blog &#187; Education Theory</title>
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	<description>Closing the Achievement Gap: Teaching Content</description>
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		<title>All Together Now&#8230;.Sing!</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/09/16/all-together-now-sing/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/09/16/all-together-now-sing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Core Knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Curriculum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[common core]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[content]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Partnership for 21st Century Skills]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the signers of the Common Core missive want to consider a singing telegram instead of a letter, I humbly suggest the following, sung to the tune of Frank Sinatra’s “Love and Marriage” (that&#8217;s the theme song to &#8220;Married With Children&#8221; if you’re under 40):
Skills and content, skills and content
Go together like a nun and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Horses and Carts</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/09/16/horses-and-carts-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/09/16/horses-and-carts-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Core Knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Curriculum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Theory]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A who&#8217;s who of educators and reformers have signed a letter from Common Core reminding the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21) that attempts to teach skills apart from knowledge have failed repeatedly.  Randi Weingarten, E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Dan Willingham, Diane Ravitch, Checker Finn, John Silber, Kevin Chavous and Whitney Tilson are among those urging P21 &#8220;and other advocates of 21st [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>30</slash:comments>
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		<title>Want Research-Based Teaching? Then Forget &#8220;Learning Styles&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/09/14/want-research-based-teaching-then-forget-learning-styles/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/09/14/want-research-based-teaching-then-forget-learning-styles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:34:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Theory]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Want to claim you support research-based methods of teaching?  Then stop demanding that teachers cater to children&#8217;s individual &#8221;learning styles.&#8221;  There&#8217;s no research to support the idea that certain children learn best in certain ways, notes Dan Willingham who guest posts at The Answer Sheet Valerie Straus&#8217; new education blog on the Washington Post&#8217;s recently revamped education page. 
&#8220;Learning styles has become unquestioned dogma among many [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Common Knowledge and Democracy</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/09/09/common-knowledge-and-democracy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/09/09/common-knowledge-and-democracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Core Knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[columbia journalism review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E. D. Hirsch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Making of Americans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Citizenship spins upon the axis of common information; its responsibilities require, at their base, the sense of security that comes from knowing that what I know is fundamentally similar to what you know.&#8221;
While this quote may sound as if it&#8217;s ripped directly from the pages E.D. Hirsch&#8217;s new book, The Making of Americans, it actually appears [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Making of Americans</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/09/01/the-making-of-americans/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/09/01/the-making-of-americans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Core Knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[core knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E. D. Hirsch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jay Mathews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[language proficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Kahlenberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Making of Americans]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The official publication date is still two weeks away (Sept. 15), but copies of E.D. Hirsch&#8217;s new book, The Making of Americans: Democracy and Our Schools, have started to hit the bookstores.  Jay Mathews gets a jump with his review in the Washington Post.  &#8220;If the inventive 81-year-old had been a business leader or politician [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Close Only Counts in Horseshoes&#8230;and School Choice?</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/07/14/close-only-counts-in-horseshoesand-school-choice/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/07/14/close-only-counts-in-horseshoesand-school-choice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research and Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Center on Reinventing Public Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daniel T. Willingham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debra Viadero]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school choice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transportation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Why do parents enroll children in underperforming schools when there appear to be better choices nearby?   For some, transportation may be a dealbreaker,  according to a new survey by the University of Washington&#8217;s Center on Reinventing Public Education posted by EdWeek&#8217;s Debra Viadero:
The results suggest that transportation is especially challenging for low-income families, 45 percent of whom [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>One Bad Apple</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/05/12/one-bad-apple/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/05/12/one-bad-apple/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 15:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Educational Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research and Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[classroom behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[domestic violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Next]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Children from troubled families perform &#8220;considerably worse&#8221; on standardized reading and mathematics tests and are much more likely to commit disciplinary infractions and be suspended than other students, according to a new study.  Writing in Education Next, Scott Carrell of UC-Davis and the University of Pittsburgh&#8217;s Mark Hoekstra offer evidence that  &#8220;a single disruptive student can [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Freire Is Foul and Foul is Freire</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/04/27/freire-is-foul-and-foul-is-freire/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/04/27/freire-is-foul-and-foul-is-freire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teacher Training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paolo Freire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sol Stern]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=2538</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mention the name Paolo Freire at a gathering of educated people and you&#8217;re likely to get blank stares.  Unless members of that group went to ed school, where the Brazilian theorist is nothing less than a rock star, and his 1970 book Pedagogy of the Opressed is part of the canon.  In the new City Journal, Sol Stern examines the curious [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>41</slash:comments>
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		<title>Want to Improve Education? Put Your Best Lessons on YouTube</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/03/31/want-to-improve-education-put-your-best-lessons-on-youtube/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/03/31/want-to-improve-education-put-your-best-lessons-on-youtube/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chronicle of Higher Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lessons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[YouTube]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At the Chronicle of Higher Education, Kevin Carey looks at the collapse of newspapers and sees higher education on the same trajectory.  I&#8217;ll defer to Carey on what the Internet might do to higher ed, but I suspect that as long as there is market value in the credential of a name-brand university degree in addition to the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Slippery Slope of &#8220;Content&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/03/30/the-slippery-slope-of-content/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/03/30/the-slippery-slope-of-content/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[21st century skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[common core]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[content knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Partnership for 21st Century Skills]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The 21st Century Skills debate is back on again.  Lynne Munson of Common Core caused a ruckus at a P21 event at the NEA last week.  That sparked a response by Paige Kuni of Intel, who chairs the P21 board, over at Flypaper.  I won&#8217;t rehash the debate, but reading it and thinking about the ongoing dustup prompted a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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