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	<description>Closing the Achievement Gap: Teaching Content</description>
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		<title>“We’re Where We Need to Be Right Now”</title>
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		<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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Curriculum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[balanced literacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[basal readers]]></category>
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		<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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		<title>Between the Idea and the Reality</title>
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		<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>
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		<category><![CDATA[academic awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[student writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[values]]></category>

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		<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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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men</title>
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		<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>

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		<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>70</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>
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		<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>
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		<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>

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		<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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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Did You Hear the One About the Talking Pineapple…</title>
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		<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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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>Trespass Freely and Fearlessly</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2012/04/17/trespass-freely-and-fearlessly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Lahey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Curriculum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[English]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shakespeare]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.coreknowledge.org/?p=5876</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A teacher emailed me a while back with a great question. I&#8217;ve been meaning to answer and there&#8217;s no better time than today, when I have five other deadlines to avoid.
Dear Jess, 
Here&#8217;s my question for today: how much can high school age students benefit from a classical curriculum like the one at my kids&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Choosing Curriculum Without Evidence</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCoreKnowledgeBlog/~3/LCcxaUYjKb0/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2012/04/13/choosing-curriculum-without-evidence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Curriculum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Educational Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brookings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[instructional materials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russ Whitehurst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[textbooks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.coreknowledge.org/?p=5871</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you wanted to improve medical care, would you focus on hospital administration and patient insurance?  Or would you look at the treatment doctors were giving patients?  Would you try to improve a sports team’s won-loss record by focusing on stadium layout and the team’s travel schedule?  Then why, ask Brookings&#8217; Matthew Chingos and Russ [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Inspector Will See You Now</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCoreKnowledgeBlog/~3/ZvhmNP5hHIA/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.coreknowledge.org/2012/04/11/the-inspector-will-see-you-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 23:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Pondiscio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education Practice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high-stakes testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Petrilli]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If we look at more than just test scores to determine teacher effectiveness, shouldn&#8217;t we do the same for schools, asks Fordham&#8217;s Mike Petrilli.  The best accountability systems, he argues, &#8220;take various data points and turn them into user-friendly letter grades,  easily understandable by educators, parents, and taxpayers alike.&#8221;  Petrilli wants to go one [...]]]></description>
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