Core Knowledge-Annual Report--Bridging the Content Gap in Teacher Education

Annual Report Special Edition 2004

For the third year in a row Cheyenne Mountain Charter Academy, located south of Colorado Springs, received top scores in statewide tests, making it the number one middle school in the state.

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COMMON KNOWLEDGE™

The Newsletter of the Core Knowledge^® Foundation
Annual Report Special Edition 2004

Bridging the Content Gap
in Teacher Education

Work on the course outlines for teacher education was completed in November. This project, funded by the Olin Foundation, began in 2001. Three ads were sponsored in the Chronicle of Higher Education, pointing to the free course outlines posted on the web and inviting educators to seek more information about restructuring their syllabus to include more specific preparatory work in the fields to be taught in elementary schools. Several direct responses came from interested educators and from students wanting to know if any schools were offering the courses described in "What Elementary Teachers Need to Know." Many inquires also continue to come in through the feature of our website.

Core Knowledge is partnering with the Boston University School of Education to apply for a FIPSE grant to design their coursework in compliance with the suggestions offered in our reform guidelines. The Chelsea Independent School District will be the laboratory for seeing how the new teacher training would prepare teachers for real classroom settings. Although grant dollars were declined in November of 2003, we were invited to reapply and are doing so.

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Bridging the Knowledge Gap/ Highlights for 2003/ A Message from The President/ Building Bridges to Schools/ Building Bridges with Words/ Bridging the Content Gap in Teacher Education/ Connecting to Core Knowledge Teachers: 2003 Conference/ A Bridge to Literacy: The Reading Program/ Preschool: Paving the Way to Future Learning/ Bridging the Way to New Alliances/ Financial Status

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