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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>Is Teaching an Art or a Science?</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2012/05/30/is-teaching-an-art-or-a-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 20:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dan Willingham]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[That’s the question Dan Willingham poses in a new video.  As you likely know, Willingham is a University of Virginia cognitive scientist whose work focuses almost exclusively teaching and learning.  The video is worth watching, but – spoiler alert! – his conclusion is that teaching is neither art nor science, but “somewhere in between.”  He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Know Thyself and Nothing Too Much</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2012/05/25/know-thyself-and-nothing-too-much/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 14:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Lahey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cultural literacy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s cultural literacy item: Hubris.
I will allow the main characters from Rick Riordan&#8217;s novel, The Sea of Monsters, to define today&#8217;s vocabulary word of the day:
Annabeth: My fatal flaw. That&#8217;s what the Sirens showed me. My fatal flaw is hubris.
Percy: The brown stuff they spread on veggie sandwiches?
Annabeth: No, Seaweed Brain. That&#8217;s HUMMUS. hubris is worse.
Percy: what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hot! Popular! Swears Like a Longshoreman!</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCoreKnowledgeBlog/~3/OPqsLCxDT7A/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2012/05/23/hot-popular-swears-like-a-longshoreman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 13:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Coyne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scholastic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Young adult fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve read more than a handful of young adult (YA) novels, you&#8217;re probably well past the point of being dismayed by the thematic darkness and swear words.  A new study by Brigham Young University professor Sarah Coyne finds that on average, teen novels contain 38 instances of profanity between the  covers or almost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“We’re Where We Need to Be Right Now”</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCoreKnowledgeBlog/~3/CDyDmckpk3g/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2012/05/15/were-where-we-need-to-be-right-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 18:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Core Knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Curriculum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[balanced literacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[basal readers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common Core State Standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Core Knowledge Language Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Merrow]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.coreknowledge.org/?p=5906</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[John Merrow of Learning Matters filed an important ten-minute piece for the PBS Newshour last night, looking at elementary reading programs.  Merrow and his producer Cat McGrath visited three different schools in and around New York City: one that teaches with basal readers, another with &#8220;balanced literacy,&#8221; and one of the New York City schools [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Between the Idea and the Reality</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCoreKnowledgeBlog/~3/yq0Bd8u7jTU/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2012/05/08/between-the-idea-and-the-reality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 18:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Lahey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Practice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[academic awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[student writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[values]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.coreknowledge.org/?p=5901</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Twice  a year, we formally assess students&#8217; writing. I hand out a prompt and  grading rubric about one week before the date of the assessment in order  to give the students time to organize their thoughts in advance of the  prompt. They then have two class periods to write their essay. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCoreKnowledgeBlog/~3/hUSOiz48xV8/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2012/05/07/the-best-laid-plans-of-mice-and-men/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 14:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[classroom management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Next]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Scott Joftus]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.coreknowledge.org/?p=5896</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;As a policy wonk, I push for high academic expectations for all  students,&#8221; writes Scott Joftus in Education Next. &#8220;As a father, however, I find that what matters most to me is that  my daughters are happy in school.&#8221;
&#8220;Over more than 20 years in the field of education—including two with  Teach For [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>102</slash:comments>
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		<title>Second Thoughts on Pineapplegate</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2012/05/04/second-thoughts-on-pineapplegate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 20:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assessment and Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andy Rotherham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pearson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[standardized testing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.coreknowledge.org/?p=5891</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Writing in his TIME Magazine column, Andy “Eduwonk” Rotherham offers up a largely exculpatory take on Pineapplegate.  The media jumped all over a bowdlerized version of the test passage, he notes.  New York state officials should have been clearer in explaining that nothing makes its way onto standardized tests by accident.  And in the end, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love a Book?  Don’t Tell Your Kids!</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCoreKnowledgeBlog/~3/BrDNpJ2lMfE/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2012/05/03/love-a-book-dont-tell-your-kids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 18:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judy Blume]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reader engagement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reading]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.coreknowledge.org/?p=5886</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you were a kid, did you ever read a book that changed your life?  Well, don’t tell your kids if you want it to have the same effect on them. “Remember how a parental recommendation was the kiss of death when you were a kid?” asks legendary children’s author Judy Blume. “That hasn&#8217;t changed [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>How to Make Kids Hate Reading</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCoreKnowledgeBlog/~3/QkMNvPKJaJo/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2012/05/01/how-to-make-kids-hate-reading/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 13:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Curriculum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daniel T. Willingham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[English Language Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reading strategies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.coreknowledge.org/?p=5883</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Building reading instruction around comprehension strategies is not only ineffective, it also takes the joy out of reading, writes Dan Willingham in his latest blog post.
The UVA cognitive scientist has long argued that while reading strategies have some value&#8211;principally in helping students understand that what they read should have some communicative value&#8211;it’s a huge mistake [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did You Hear the One About the Talking Pineapple…</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCoreKnowledgeBlog/~3/E7yvKtDkvuE/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2012/04/20/did-you-hear-the-one-about-the-talking-pineapple/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assessment and Testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“It’s  clearly an allegory. The pineapple is the Department of Education. The hare is the student who is eagerly taking the test,” said E.D. Hirsch. “The joke is supposed to be on the hare, because the questions are  post-modern unanswerable,” he said. “But in fact the joke is on the pineapple, because the [...]]]></description>
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