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Common Knowledge, November 2004

November 12 , 2004

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THE NEWSLETTER OF THE CORE KNOWLEDGE® FOUNDATION
VOLUME 17, NUMBER 4, NOVEMBER 2004

Feature Articles:

50 Years After Brown vs. Board of Education by Barbara Garvin-Kester

Orange County Head Start Preschoolers by Linda Bevilacqua

A Backward Glance by Mary Kathryn Hassett

National Conference Preview

Core Knowledge Teachers Honored by Mary Kathryn Hassett

Homeschooling by Janice Kielb

50 Years After Brown vs. Board of Education
Throughout this year both print and broadcast reporters, columnists, pundits, and political opportunists have questioned whether the promise was fulfilled or the dream deferred, whether we have diluted education beyond recognition or blazed trails to the post-Brown frontier. The answer to them all is yes.

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Head Start Preschoolers Soar with Core Knowledge
Teachers in eight Head Start classrooms serving 134 children in rural Orange County, Virginia started using the Core Knowledge preschool program as their curriculum of choice four years ago.

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A Backward Glance: Raj Desai

Life Magazine photo, 1991

There is a photo spread mounted in the workroom at the Core Knowledge Foundation of a 1991 Life magazine story describing the early days of E.D. Hirsch’s attempt to reform American education. I often have wondered what happened to the young students in the picture. 

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National Conference Preview
The 14th Core Knowledge National Conference is your chance to encounter the spirit of Ben Franklin, experiment with new ideas, meet the experts, and get your questions answered.

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Core Knowledge Teachers Honored
Elie Gaines, second grade teacher and Core Knowledge Coordinator at Pinnacle Peak Elementary School in Scottsdale, received a National Educator Award from the Milken Family Foundation, and Core Knowledge Coordinator and teacher, Jennifer England of Franklin Elementary School, Corvallis School District, received the Golden Apple Award.

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Homeschooling
When I purchased my first Core Knowledge book, What Your First Grader Needs to Know, I had no idea that I would end using it and so much more from Core Knowledge to homeschool my children.

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