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	<title>The Core Knowledge Blog &#187; Weekly Roundup</title>
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	<description>Closing the Achievement Gap: Teaching Content</description>
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		<title>Required Reading</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/11/18/required-reading-35/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My &#8220;Blog About This&#8221; list is growing like kudzu, so in the interest of time&#8230;.
Jay Greene &#8220;can’t understand the enthusiasm of education reformers for national standards and testing.&#8221;  Jay sees plenty of room for mischief.  I&#8217;m inclined to agree.  However, if all we end up with is national testing that allows apples-to-apples comparisons of students from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vox Populi</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/05/22/vox-populi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 16:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One problem with the mastery assessment argument is that all too often students who choose not to do homework, attend, etc., then fail traditional assessments but are granted &#8220;alternative&#8221; evaluations. It has been my experience that few of these alternative methods measure mastery but are simply social promotion poorly disguised as legitimate accomplishment.&#8221;   Peter on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barbaric Yawp</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/05/15/barbaric-yawp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 18:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So many interesting, provocative blog posts this week.  So little time to discuss them all&#8230;
Children of the poor get tougher and more unmannerly slowly. In time, they lose respect for authority. Perhaps because adults are rarely able (or willing) to protect them. Maybe because many public authorities quite openly treat them and their families disrespectfully. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Required Reading</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/03/14/required-reading-33/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A weekly roundup of the week’s most important news, information and blog posts about curriculum, teaching, education policy and other items of interest to the Core Knowledge community.
Core Knowledge
P21 Still Doesn&#8217;t Get It
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills continues to insist that choosing between teaching content and skills is a &#8220;false choice.&#8221; No one disagrees. Children [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carnival of Education</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/03/05/carnival-of-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re happy to host (a day late) this week&#8217;s Carnival of Education, a weekly round up of the most interesting selections from ed bloggers from far and wide.  A particularly robust selection this week, so let&#8217;s get started:
On Teaching
&#8220;Being a first grade teacher is kind of like playing defensive tackle. Everybody says you&#8217;re important, but there&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Required Reading</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/02/15/required-reading-32/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 09:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A weekly roundup of the week’s most important news, information and blog posts about curriculum, teaching, education policy and other items of interest to the Core Knowledge community.
Core Knowledge
&#8220;How All Our Schools Should Be&#8221;?
President Obama visited Washington&#8217;s Capital City Public Charter School and praised &#8220;this kind of innovative school&#8221; as &#8220;an example of how all our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Required Reading</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/02/08/required-reading-31/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A weekly roundup of the week’s most important news, information and blog posts about curriculum, teaching, education policy and other items of interest to the Core Knowledge community.
Core Knowledge
21st Century Skills and the Tree Octopus Problem
Sometimes a little knowledge can solve a problem that can’t be helped by all of the innovation, creativity and information literacy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Required Reading</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/02/01/required-reading-30/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A weekly roundup of the week’s most important news, information and blog posts about curriculum, teaching, education policy and other items of interest to the Core Knowledge community.
Core Knowledge
Handwriting Is Still Alive!
Guest blogger Kitty Burns Florey, author of the new book Script and Scribble: The Rise and Fall of Handwriting, observes that hardly a day goes by when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Required Reading</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/01/25/required-reading-29/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/01/25/required-reading-29/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A weekly roundup of the week’s most important news, information and blog posts about curriculum, teaching, education policy and other items of interest to the Core Knowledge community.
Core Knowledge
Obama’s Inauguration and the Limits of Symbolism
It’s bittersweet to think that many students–indeed, many Americans–couldn&#8217;t fully appreciate Barack Obama&#8217;s inaugural address and the watershed moment in history it represents.  The speech was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Required Reading</title>
		<link>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/01/18/required-reading-28/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2009/01/18/required-reading-28/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A weekly roundup of the week’s most important news, information and blog posts about curriculum, teaching, education policy and other items of interest to the Core Knowledge community.
Core Knowledge
Teaching Content IS Teaching Reading
A remarkable YouTube video by cognitive scientist Dan Willingham demonstrates convincingly why background knowledge is essential to reading comprehension, and why a broad, content-rich education is [...]]]></description>
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