“Filling the Void: Lessons from Core Knowledge Schools” is available from the Core Knowledge Foundation. A strong, detailed curriculum, coupled with the teacher training and other resources to make it ...

The folks at Common Core and Core Knowledge take issue with Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland’s equating core knowledge with 21st-century skills. In blog posts here and here, the organizations take shots at ...

Heather Awbery, the principal at Balboa Elementary, has an odd problem. “What is going on? Why is my child, at Christmas break, only asking for amphibian books?” Awbery said parents have asked her.

The Santa Barbara Unified School District is backpedaling an abrupt decision to end a beloved program at La Cumbre Junior High after an impassioned group of parents fired back at the announcement.

On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, American Enterprise Institute senior fellow Robert Pondiscio joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss a new study that shows that a curriculum ...

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Poudre School District is adopting Imagine Learning’s EL Education K-5 literacy program for most of its elementary schools beginning next fall. The program will cost the district more than $5.4 ...

In March 2022, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons launched the Resident Orthopaedic Core Knowledge program, which provides in-depth resources to residents by utilizing the latest technology, ...

that was founded in 1986 by E. D. Hirsch, Jr., professor emeritus at the University of Virginia and author of 'The Knowledge Deficit', 'Cultural Literacy', and 'The Schools We Need and Why We Don't ...