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		<title>If It Sounds Too Bad To Be True&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/10/if-it-sounds-too-bad-to-be-true/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/10/if-it-sounds-too-bad-to-be-true/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In September, this blog passed on the results of a survey of Oklahoma high school students whose lack of knowledge of basic civics strained credulity.  But not far enough, apparently.  Via Public School Insights comes word that the results of the survey were &#8220;likely fabricated.&#8221;  The survey by a firm called Strategic Vision LLC for the Goldwater Institute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gerald Bracey&#8217;s Last Testament</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/09/gerald-braceys-last-testament/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/09/gerald-braceys-last-testament/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You had to know that if any education commenter could make himself heard from beyond the grave, it would be Gerald Bracey.  He was working on his 18th annual Report on the Condition of Public Education when he passed away last month.  It&#8217;s out today.  It focuses on three specific reform ideas:  Mayoral control of school [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Einstein on the Fritz</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/02/einstein-on-the-fritz/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/02/einstein-on-the-fritz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interacting with Baby Einstein DVDs may not make your baby smarter. But interacting with Dan Willingham will make you smarter about the claims marketers make on behalf of educational products.  Dan&#8217;s take on the Baby Einstein flap is up at the Washington Post&#8217;s Answer Sheet blog.  &#8221;Many parents already believe that visual stimulation and classical music (which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Am Shocked, SHOCKED, To Find Gambling Going On Here</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/29/i-am-shocked-shocked-to-find-gambling-going-on-here/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/29/i-am-shocked-shocked-to-find-gambling-going-on-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Research and Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[proficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[standardized tests]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at the National Center for Education Statistics have found evidence that &#8220;a majority of states may have lowered student-proficiency standards on state tests in recent years.&#8221;
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hold On, Mr. President</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/22/hold-on-mr-president/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/22/hold-on-mr-president/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research and Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Linda Perlstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teacher quality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“From the moment students enter a school, the most important factor in their success is not the color of their skin or the income of their parents. It’s the person standing at the front of the classroom,” said President Obama in a recent speech.  Linda Perlstein, off to a strong start on her new ed [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</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>
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		<category><![CDATA[education reform]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russ Whitehurst]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.coreknowledge.org/?p=3577</guid>
		<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>Pinocchio Parents (and Teachers)</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/01/pinocchio-parents-and-teachers/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/10/01/pinocchio-parents-and-teachers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research and Reports]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most mothers and fathers practice &#8220;Pinocchio parenting&#8221; &#8212; teaching their kids that lying is bad while regularly fibbing to them, according to a pair of new studies in the Journal of Moral Education.
Researchers at the University of Toronto and the University of California found that parents who stress the importance of truth-telling to their little [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</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>
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		<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>A Promising Start for Core Knowledge Early Literacy Program</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/09/23/a-promising-start-for-core-knowledge-reading-program/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/09/23/a-promising-start-for-core-knowledge-reading-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Core Knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research and Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Core Knowledge Reading Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E. D. Hirsch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joel Klein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One year after announcing a pilot program to test a new Core Knowledge Early Literacy program in ten New York City Schools, Joel Klein Tuesday announced very strong early results.  As a news release from the New York City Department of Ed puts it: 
The progress of students in the ten participating schools was more than five times greater than the also-significant performance of students [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Parents Read More, Praise More, But Keep Kids on a Short Leash</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/08/19/parents-read-more-praise-more-but-keep-kids-on-a-short-leash/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/08/19/parents-read-more-praise-more-but-keep-kids-on-a-short-leash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research and Reports]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Children today have fewer chores around the house and greater autonomy than previous generations, but they&#8217;re kept on a shorter leash outside the home.  That&#8217;s the takeaway from a novel study that analyzed 300 advice columns and editorials from randomly chosen issues of Parents magazine from 1929 to 2006.  Dr. Markella Rutherford of Wellesley College was studying [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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