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	<title>The Core Knowledge Blog &#187; Educational Policy</title>
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	<description>Closing the Achievement Gap: Teaching Content</description>
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		<title>Congress to Consider Expanding Troops to Teachers Program</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/16/congress-to-consider-expanding-troops-to-teachers-program/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/16/congress-to-consider-expanding-troops-to-teachers-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Educational Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Under a bill pending in Congress, 98% of U.S. schools would be eligible to hire retiring military personnel who will then be trained as educators under the federal “Troops to Teachers” program, McClatchy Newspapers reports:
As currently designed, the program offers troops up to $5,000 to help them pay for their education. And then they can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Caught California Being Good!</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/05/i-caught-california-being-good/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/05/i-caught-california-being-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Educational Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charter caps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race to the Top]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[test scores]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the oldest trick in the elementary school classroom management book:  using positive reinforcement to get children to behave in the hope of earning a reward or recognition.  When it&#8217;s time to clean up before lunch the teacher says, &#8220;Let&#8217;s see who&#8217;s ready to line up first.  I&#8217;m looking to see who has their desk cleaned [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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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>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/28/not-eitheror-its-and/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[eduwonk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russ Whitehurst]]></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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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Best and Wisest Parent</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/27/the-best-and-wisest-parent/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/27/the-best-and-wisest-parent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Educational Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diane Ravitch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Dewey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Schools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Invoking John Dewey&#8217;s maxim that a community should want for all children what the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, Diane Ravitch wants small classes and the presence of the arts in schools that are physically attractive and well-maintained.  At Bridging Differences, she notes none of these ideas are driving education policy at present.
The [...]]]></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>History, Hubris and Humility</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/20/history-hubris-and-humility/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/20/history-hubris-and-humility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Educational Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over at Fordham&#8217;s Flypaper, Andy Smarick posts a remarkable piece that should be tacked to the bulletin boards of would-be ed reformers everywhere.  It&#8217;s a brief reflection on Diane Ravitch&#8217;s 2000 book, Left Back. 
If you’re not in the market for a dose of humility, this probably isn’t your bag. If read with an open mind, it’s [...]]]></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>Gimme One Good Reason</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/02/gimme-one-good-reason/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/02/gimme-one-good-reason/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assessment and Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Educational Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national standards]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been as critical of the squishy, content-free proposed national ELA standards as anyone, but over at Flypaper Eric Ulas reminds us that there is at least one good reason to support national standards: an end to the, er, impressionistic definitions of reading proficiency from state to state.  Ulas assumes we would have a single [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Willingham: Reading Is Not a Skill</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/09/28/willingham-reading-is-not-a-skill/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/09/28/willingham-reading-is-not-a-skill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Curriculum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Educational Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research and Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[background knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daniel T. Willingham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reading comprehension]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reading strategies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dan Willingham reviews the draft voluntary national standards in reading and sees a problem:  &#8221;Teachers and administrators are likely to read those 18 standards and to try to teach to them,&#8221; he notes.  &#8220;But reading comprehension is not a &#8217;skill&#8217; that can be taught directly.&#8221;
His latest blog post at the Washington Post&#8217;s education page observes that teachers tend [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>29</slash:comments>
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		<title>In Case of Accidental Overdose</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/09/28/in-case-of-accidental-overdose/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/09/28/in-case-of-accidental-overdose/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Educational Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[international comparisons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school year]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;administer more poison. 
Please explain to me how doing more of what&#8217;s not working will make it work better.
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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