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2025 Core Knowledge National Conference

On June 26th and 27th 2025 in Orlando, FL the Core Knowledge Foundation will once again be hosting our...
August 14, 2024 Core Knowledge Foundation
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Stories from the Field: Listen, Learn, Grow

Have you ever heard a fellow educator share an experience and thought to yourself, “the same thing happened to...
April 26, 2022 Core Knowledge Foundation
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Knowledge Needs Champions

Harriet Tubman will grace the front of our $20 bill—a long overdue tribute to a woman who lived up...
May 10, 2016 Core Knowledge Foundation
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Dear Chiefs: This Is Your Chance to Close the Reading Achievement Gap

Assuming all goes as planned, we should have a new federal education law by the end of the year....
December 1, 2015 Core Knowledge Foundation
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The High-Tech Road to Literacy

Every time I see a toddler with an iPad, I cringe just a little. I try to hide it....
October 27, 2015 Core Knowledge Foundation
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The Triumph of Training over Education

Not all that long ago, college followed a predictable pattern: two years of general education requirements followed by two...
October 14, 2015 Core Knowledge Foundation
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Stop Reforming, Start Improving

This post first appeared on The Thomas B. Fordham Institute’s Flypaper blog. “Programmatic series of studies”—that’s how one of...
September 10, 2015 Core Knowledge Foundation
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Mississippi: Common Core Lite

Mississippi is a little more than half way through a public comment period on the 2014 Mississippi College and...
August 10, 2015 Core Knowledge Foundation
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Math and Science Increase Wages–Even Without College

In my last post, I mentioned a couple of reports showing huge disparities in the courses offered by high...
July 31, 2015 Core Knowledge Foundation
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The (Knowledge) Rich Get Richer

If I could accomplish just one thing in my career, it would be to have all leaders take equalizing...
July 28, 2015 Core Knowledge Foundation