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	<title>The Core Knowledge Blog</title>
	
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	<description>Closing the Achievement Gap: Teaching Content</description>
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		<title>This Is What Equal Opportunity Looks Like</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 21:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Hansel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Core Knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Educational Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Core Knowledge Language Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marc Tucker]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, Marc Tucker of the National Center on Education and the Economy wrote about supporting the Common Core State Standards—and doing whatever it takes to implement them well—simply because they reflect real-world standards. Institutions of higher education and employers have high standards. For many children from disadvantaged homes, rigorous schooling offers the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TTBOMK, Paying Attention Is MIA. NISM?</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2013/05/15/ttbomk-paying-attention-is-mia-nism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 20:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Hansel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Core Knowledge Language Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daniel T. Willingham]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Will Fitzhugh]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.coreknowledge.org/?p=6613</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Translation: To the best of my knowledge, paying attention is missing in action. Need I say more? I don’t need to say more about the problem, so let’s get right into what to do. Many thanks to Dan Willingham for drawing attention to, as he put it, “the 21st century skill students really lack”: It’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are We Really Waiting for Superman?</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2013/05/10/are-we-really-waiting-for-superman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 19:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Hansel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Curriculum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teacher Training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teacher preparation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.coreknowledge.org/?p=6609</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Having spent the last week thinking a lot about teacher preparation, I’d like to share a few more thoughts on teaching, teacher preparation, and student achievement. In the last two posts, we’ve seen that far too many teacher preparation programs eschew preparation and that, instead, there’s an emphasis on social-justice activism, which often results in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mission Impossible: Teaching for Justice without the Canon</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2013/05/07/mission-impossible-teaching-for-justice-without-the-canon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 13:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Hansel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teacher Training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[character]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberal arts education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Bauerlein]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.coreknowledge.org/?p=6596</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my last post, I noted that teacher educators who put shaping future teachers into social-justice activists above shaping them into effective instructors are, in my opinion, terribly misguided. I strongly agree with diminishing society’s inequities—and I think effective instructors, by narrowing the achievement gap, are doing just that. One thing I did not mention [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fear Factor: Teaching without Training</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2013/05/01/fear-factor-teaching-without-training/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 13:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Hansel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research and Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teacher Training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kate Walsh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NCTQ]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.coreknowledge.org/?p=6592</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, I had the pleasure of listening to Bill Bennett forcefully (and repeatedly) make the case for Core Knowledge and the work of E. D. Hirsch. But the event was bittersweet. Not because of the political differences between Bennett and Hirsch—for me, those only increase the odds that this Hirsch guy is onto something. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>33</slash:comments>
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		<title>Can the Common Core Standards Reverse the “Rising Tide of Mediocrity”?</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2013/04/26/can-the-common-core-standards-reverse-the-rising-tide-of-mediocrity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Hansel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Core Knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research and Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Nation at Risk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al Shanker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common Core State Standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cultural literacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E. D. Hirsch]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.coreknowledge.org/?p=6583</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This post originally appeared on April 25, 2013, on the Shanker Blog:  http://shankerblog.org. Spring 2013 marks the 30th anniversary of two landmark publications. One, an essay by E. D. Hirsch, Jr., in The American Scholar titled “Cultural Literacy,” sparked a small but steadily growing movement dedicated to educational excellence and equity. The other, A Nation [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Making College a Genuine Choice: Michael Shaughnessy Interviews Lisa Hansel</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCoreKnowledgeBlog/~3/S8iwl68iVy4/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2013/04/22/making-college-a-genuine-choice-michael-shaughnessy-interviews-lisa-hansel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Hansel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Core Knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research and Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[achievement gap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[core knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[critical thinking]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.coreknowledge.org/?p=6575</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael F. Shaughnessy’s interview with Lisa Hansel was originally posted on April 16, 2013, in Education News. Michael F. Shaughnessy: 1) Lisa, tell us exactly what your position is currently and what you are trying to do. In March, I became the director of communications for the Core Knowledge Foundation. Before that I was the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Wince a Day Keeps My Hopes at Bay</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCoreKnowledgeBlog/~3/bbHObJ8sXrM/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2013/04/17/a-wince-a-day-keeps-my-hopes-at-bay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Hansel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research and Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Library Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cognitive science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[critical thinking]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.coreknowledge.org/?p=6569</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve long been aware of the widespread misconception that comprehension, critical thinking, and the like are content-free skills. Wanting to help correct that delusion is one of the main reasons I joined the Core Knowledge Foundation. Having been with the foundation for a little over a month, I’m seeing the skills-don’t-need-content fallacy everywhere. My neck [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Talk to Me Baby</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2013/04/11/talk-to-me-baby/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Hansel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Curriculum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Preschool]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hart and Risley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reading aloud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tina Rosenberg]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.coreknowledge.org/?p=6562</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“Annette, you make sure you talk to that baby.” Annette is my mother, and the quote is from my step-grandmother, Eva. Neither one had ever heard of any language or literacy research, but they shared essential wisdom about how to raise children. My mother knew the importance not just of talking to her children, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Inclusive, Capacious, Diverse, Relevant . . . and Misleading California Reading List</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCoreKnowledgeBlog/~3/lui8Bj4OfCE/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2013/04/08/the-inclusive-capacious-diverse-relevant-and-misleading-california-reading-list/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Educational Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common Core State Standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cultural literacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Bauerlein]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Mark Bauerlein Mark Bauerlein is a professor in the Department of English at Emory University and the author of The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future; Or, Don’t Trust Anyone Under 30. &#160; Last month, the California Department of Education issued Recommended Literature: Pre-Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve, an [...]]]></description>
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