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Volume 20, Number 2, July 2007

Feature Articles:

2006 Annual Report
Here’s the Boost that Poor Children, Their Teachers, and Their Schools Really Need By Antonia Cortese
The NYC Knowledge Network by Katie Birckhead
Two Ways of Explaining the Listening and Learning Strand by Dr. Matthew Davis
Eureka! One Great Conference Leads to Another! by JoAnne Spitale

The 2006 Annual Report

The Annual Report will apprise you of all the happenings at CKF in 2006 and early 2007, including information about the our new Development Program and our new president, statistics and program updates for our Pre-K–8 schools, important developments in the Core Knowledge Reading Program, Annual Conference information, announcements of major new publications, and the Foundation’s financial summary.

Here’s the Boost that Poor Children, Their Teachers, and Their Schools Really Need

. . .although the evidence indicates that in school, poor, middle-class, and wealthy children actually learn at about the same pace, by fourth grade, students from low-income families are nearly three grade levels below their peers in reading and about two grade levels below their peers in math.

The Knowledge Network

This spring, the New York City schools each were provided with state funds for differentiated support services by providers of their choice, and one of the options schools could choose was the Knowledge Network, led by a former New York City Regional Superintendent, Dr. Kathleen Cashin, now CEO of the Knowledge Network Learning Support Organization. The Core Knowledge curriculum is the centerpiece of Dr. Cashin’s program.

Two Ways of Explaining the Listening and Learning Strand

In this article I want to try out a couple of different ways of explaining what it is we are trying to accomplish in the Listening and Learning Strand.

Eureka! One Great Conference Leads to Another!

The conference department is currently in the planning stages of the regional conference and we have reviewed each and every response and comment of the completed surveys from the 16th Core Knowledge National Conference. Attendee feedback has been integral in the planning of the regional conference.



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