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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>Assumptive Teaching</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assessment and Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Curriculum]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Karin Chenoweth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Karin Chenoweth visited two large, suburban high schools recently, both serving significant numbers of middle-class and working-class African-American families.  Chenoweth, the author of How It’s Being Done: Urgent Lessons from Unexpected Schools, explains that at both schools, there&#8217;s been a lot of &#8220;assumptive teaching&#8221; going on.  That means
&#8230;teachers assume a great deal of background knowledge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rest of the Story</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2010/02/08/the-rest-of-the-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A little late to its own party, the Washington Post&#8217;s ombudsman explains what happened behind the scenes in the Turquemada incident.
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		<title>100 Years of Solipsism</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCoreKnowledgeBlog/~3/COczcYtDmSY/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2010/02/08/100-years-of-solipsism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Curriculum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[authenticity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Willingham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diane Ravitch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[progressive education]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.coreknowledge.org/?p=4268</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a significant shortcoming in Susan Engel&#8217;s much-discussed and widely lauded vision of what children should do in school all day, writes Dan Willingham at the Washington Post&#8217;s Answer Sheet blog, and it&#8217;s that content is never mentioned.  &#8220;It’s all about process—reading is a skill, science is all about observing and finding patterns, and so on,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>“Let’s Eat Grandma!”</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCoreKnowledgeBlog/~3/v9dF-3AxZHk/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2010/02/05/lets-eat-grandma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No, &#8220;Let&#8217;s Eat, Grandma!&#8221;  Punctuation saves lives.  Brilliant.
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Suing Over Curriculum</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCoreKnowledgeBlog/~3/Xd3NKXH1gQY/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2010/02/05/suing-over-curriculum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Curriculum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mathematics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seattle]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.coreknowledge.org/?p=4260</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A judge in Washington State has rejected Seattle&#8217;s high school math curriculum and ordered schools to consider alternatives.  A district-wide curriculum called &#8220;Discovering Math&#8221; was adoped last year.  But two parents and a University of Washington professor went to court  to overturn the School Board&#8217;s decision.  Remarkably, they won.  The court ruled &#8220;there is insufficient evidence for [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Old Whine, New Bottle</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCoreKnowledgeBlog/~3/ykRfvprJdgg/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2010/02/04/old-whine-new-bottle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Curriculum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literacy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.coreknowledge.org/?p=4252</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How did the New York Times get suckered into running an op-ed piece that recycles standard ed school constructivist orthodoxies, presenting them as a bold, new curriculum initiative?   In her curious essay titled &#8221;Playing to Learn,&#8221; Williams College professor Susan Engel calls on elementary schools to &#8220;overhaul the curriculum itself.&#8221;   By the time children leave elementary school they
&#8220;&#8230;should be able [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Million Dollar Misunderstanding</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2010/02/03/the-million-dollar-misunderstanding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[No category]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.coreknowledge.org/?p=4244</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone knows that a college graduate will earn nearly a million dollars more than a high school graduate over his or her lifetime.  Everyone may be wrong.  The common and much-repeated college earnings premium stems from a 2002 Census report titled &#8220;The Big Payoff.&#8220;   According to that report, the average high-school graduate earns $25,900 a year, while the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>DOE to States: Clean Your Room!</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2010/02/03/doe-to-states-clean-your-room/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Educational Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Willingham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[incentives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race to the Top]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.coreknowledge.org/?p=4240</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Race to the Top reminds Dan Willingham of his mother&#8217;s attempts to get him to clean his room when he was 10 years old.  At first, young Danny&#8217;s goal was to get out of the house each morning before Mom found out his room was a mess.  Tired of nagging, Mom offered him &#8211; sorry, incentivized him &#8211; with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Dat Say They Gonna Cancel School?</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCoreKnowledgeBlog/~3/MOBnLcA_FTo/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2010/02/02/who-dat-say-they-gonna-cancel-school/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Merrow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Orleans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school cancellation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Super Bowl]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.coreknowledge.org/?p=4237</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Arne Duncan has backtracked on his claim that Hurricane Katrina was “the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans.&#8221; But schoolchildren in the Crescent City probably think the Saints making the Super Bowl is the best thing to happen, since the city&#8217;s schools are likely to call an emergency day and stay closed on Monday. 
&#8220;We [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Core Knowledge to Make Curriculum Available for Free</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCoreKnowledgeBlog/~3/lKmOx5P4gQs/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2010/02/01/core-knowledge-to-make-curriculum-available-for-free/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Core Knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Curriculum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over at Education Week, Catherine Gewertz has advance word on a big piece of upcoming news:  After more than two decades of publishing and distributing its K-8 Core Knowledge Sequence exclusively to Core Knowledge schools, the Foundation is planning to make its proprietary curriculum available for free online. 
The decision to publicly release the Sequence comes on the eve of the release of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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