Special Edition: Annual Report 2004

Hawthorne Elementary School in San Antonio, one of the earliest Core Knowledge Schools, has something to be pleased about in 2003.  Ninety-six percent of their sixth graders passed the TAKS reading test and 91% passed the math test.  They had the highest scores overall in the district and performed significantly above the state average.

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COMMON KNOWLEDGE™

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

Bridging the Knowledge Gap

For the first time in its eighteen-year history the Core Knowledge Foundation is presenting  its annual report in an electronic format.

Bridging the knowledge gap has been a favorite theme of ours and this year we're expanding it, making new connections with those who support us and those whom we serve — and using the internet to do it.  

Those we serve — children, teachers, and schools — guide our mission:

To offer all children a better chance in life and to create a fairer and more literate society by educating America's youth in a solid, specific, sequenced, and shared curriculum

This mission is summarized in our motto:   

Educational Excellence and Equity for all Children.

 For the past eighteen years we have provided children from preschool to grade 8 with a rich curriculum that motivates them to learn and enables them to master a shared body of knowledge that leads to success in life. We have worked to make this curriculum an instrument of change in American education, by inspiring new standards, by narrowing the achievement gap between advantaged and disadvantaged, and by providing a model to influence reform in American education. These were the original goals motivating our founder, E. D. Hirsch, Jr. when he established the Foundation in 1986 and they are the goals that will continue to guide us in the future.  

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