Core Knowledge-Annual Report--Highlights 2003

Special Edition: Annual Report 2004

Three Oaks Middle School in Fort Meyers, Florida attributes their outstanding scores in the Florida Writes! state test to "the fact that Core Knowledge provides the students with such a rich background of writing styles and vocabulary." The percentage of students above the state standard was 95% in 2001, 97% in 2002, and 98% in 2003.

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COMMON KNOWLEDGE™

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

Highlights of 2003

Founder and Board Chairman E.D. Hirsch, Jr. champions education reform on several new fronts.
Barbara Garvin-Kester assumes presidency of Core Knowledge, January 2003.
Foundation adopts new constitution, laying out the strategies, values, and business principles that will govern its future.
Core Knowledge steps up commitment to preschools and elementary schools in the Arkansas Delta.
Official School Visitation Sites are established.
Preschool program undergoes major changes.
Foundation advances further into the electronic age, introducing several new features on its website, and issuing an electronic version of its newsletter, Common Knowledge.
Research and development phase of a comprehensive new Reading Program initiated.
Foundation implements changes to improve management of funds, budget execution, and financial planning and estimating.

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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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