Corrected: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that the print version of the Core Knowledge standards will be given away for free. The foundation will make the standards available for ...

Core Knowledge was the first nationally-based core curriculum proposed for elementary and middle schools, and the Core Knowledge Foundation has been a leader for 20 years in the effort to create what ...

Education equity nonprofit Core Knowledge Foundation has partnered with the Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) to develop a digital K–8 social studies curriculum, Bayou Bridges, for the state's ...

“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 ...

Aspen Academy – our tuition-free public charter school for students in kindergarten through eighth grade – has now been in existence for over nine years in the Prior Lake-Savage area. It is a ...

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 biggest new thing in American public education these days is a two-volume, 230-page, written-by-committee document called the Common Core State Standards. Forty-five states have pledged to the ...

The Common Core State Standards state what students should master, but they are not a curriculum. Jumping from the standards to create lesson plans misses a crucial middle step of developing a ...

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 ...