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		<title>A Measure of Privacy</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/02/11/a-measure-of-privacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Senechal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shhh&#8230;. Stop thinking, spout out some keywords, earn us some points, and be done with it! What are you waiting for? You have been sitting there for like a minute saying nothing! Say something, anything, just get some words out there for the group! Hello? Hello? What are you, a mummy or something? Come on, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Handwriting Is Still Alive!</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/01/29/handwriting-is-still-alive/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/01/29/handwriting-is-still-alive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kitty Burns Florey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a book about handwriting because I was concerned about the fact that handwriting is not being adequately taught in many schools. And as I researched the topic, and spoke to a lot of educators, what struck me was the amount of pressure teachers are under in the 21st century.
It&#8217;s tempting to be nostalgic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exhilarating Drudgery</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/08/21/exhilirating-drudgery/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/08/21/exhilirating-drudgery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Curriculum]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ed.org]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ron Issac]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=862</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Internet puts the world&#8217;s knowledge at the ends of our rapidly twitching fingers, yet the academic research skills of &#8220;average&#8221; students are poorer today than when they &#8220;had to trek to a library, sift through periodicals, muddle through card catalogs, and blow off dust from stacks of books, just to access potential material for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Progressive Educator Learns to Love Core Knowledge</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/08/05/a-progessive-educator-learns-to-love-core-knowledge/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/08/05/a-progessive-educator-learns-to-love-core-knowledge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Thompson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Core Knowledge]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Al Shanker]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[E. D. Hirsch]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long before I began teaching, I carried on a silent debate with Al Shanker and his &#8220;Where We Stand&#8221; column. I seethed when he recounted the common question&#8212;&#8221;is it on the test?&#8221;&#8212;and then dignified the mindset that produced such a juvenile question. Like so many liberals, my educational philosophy was a hybrid between Dewey’s (and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Correcting the Student: A Quiet Argument</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/05/04/correcting-the-student-a-quiet-argument/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/05/04/correcting-the-student-a-quiet-argument/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 14:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Senechal</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Practice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[anti-correction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I was in kindergarten, my teachers were worried about me because I never brought my paintings home. When my parents asked me why I didn’t, I told them that the paintings weren’t good. This horrified the teachers, who had marked “Great!” on every single one of them (I can still see the handwriting). I [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>What is the Purpose of America&#8217;s Schools?</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/02/03/what-is-the-purpose-of-americas-schools/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/02/03/what-is-the-purpose-of-americas-schools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 13:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel A. Heller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For over two decades almost every constituency has attacked public education. The last seven years have been particularly demoralizing, characterized by federal and state governments’ atomizing curriculum and then judging the success of individual schools by tests which may or may not provide accurate, useful information.
We frequently hear that the purpose of schools is to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hallway Culture</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/01/20/hallway-culture/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2008/01/20/hallway-culture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Before we can do our jobs as educators, students must see what&#8217;s going on in our schools and classrooms as a means to some viable end.  That many do not is the powerful subtext of Lynn H. Fox&#8217;s essay (“Getting students out of the halls and into the classrooms&#8221;) in Maryland&#8217;s gazette.net.  A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Core Knowledge?</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2007/11/27/what-is-core-knowledge/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2007/11/27/what-is-core-knowledge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russ Spicer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Core Knowledge School]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When people ask me what I do for a living, I tell them that I am the headmaster of the best school in Colorado. The next question that comes my way is, &#8220;What makes your school so great?&#8221; My reply is, &#8220;We have awesome teachers, awesome students, awesome parental support and an awesome Core Knowledge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog: Moral/Spiritual Leadership For Multicultural Education</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2007/11/20/blog-moralspiritual-leadership-for-multicultural-education/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2007/11/20/blog-moralspiritual-leadership-for-multicultural-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CKF</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Leadership]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[achievement gap]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[social equity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Barbara McCauley Lovejoy wrote to Linda Bevilacqua, President of the Core Knowledge Foundation:
Last spring I was accepted into BYU&#8217;s (Brigham Young University) Ed Leadership doctoral program.  My focus is going to be on how to better serve our diverse learners.  For this reason I am very interested in E.D. Hirsch&#8217;s work and support [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Narrowing  the Two Achievement Gaps</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2007/11/09/narrowing-the-two-achievement-gaps/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2007/11/09/narrowing-the-two-achievement-gaps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>E. D. Hirsch, Jr.</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[education reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A presentation at the 18th Education Trust National Conference, Nov. 9, 2007, Washington, D.C., by E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
© 2007 Core Knowledge Foundation. Not to be copied or reproduced without permission from the Core Knowledge Foundation, 801 E. High Street, Charlottesville, VA 22902.
I am grateful to the Education Trust for inviting me to give this [...]]]></description>
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