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What Americans Want to Know

Sometimes, dreams really do come true. In June, I called for knowledge equality through a new, crowd-sourced effort to...
December 21, 2015 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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Is Your School Increasing the Achievement Gap?

I have a very simple proposition: The more we teach, the more students learn—but some students get taught more...
October 7, 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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Joy Hakim’s Science Stories: Proof that Informative Can Be Engaging

Kiana Hernandez is a young woman who opted out of a standardized test last spring. She had her reasons,...
August 27, 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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Valid, Reliable, and Unfair

As schools across the country anxiously await the results of their new Common Core–aligned assessments, there’s one thing I...
August 4, 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
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Seeking Confirmation

Of all the problems with school reform, one of the biggest seems to be the tendency to seek bits...
July 9, 2015 Core Knowledge Foundation