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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

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It's a win-win for seniors who tutor kids


Experience Corps tutor Barbara Johnson helps out in a kindergarten class at Belmont Elementary in Baltimore. Experience Corps, a program operating in 22 cities nationwide, trains volunteers over 55 to tutor and mentor elementary school students. (Rob Carr - AP)















E.D. Hirsch Jr.: Common Core Standards could revolutionize reading instruction

My guest is E.D. Hirsch Jr., founder and chairman of the Core Knowledge Foundation and professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia. He is the author of several acclaimed books on education issues, including the best-seller "Cultural Literacy."
By E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
The results of the latest National Assessment of Educational Progressrecently released were as predictable as they were dispiriting. Reading scores for the nation’s 4th graders are unchanged since 2007. Eighth graders showed a one point uptick, but scores remained essentially flat.
Facts must be faced. We are making no progress at all in teaching children to read in the United States. Our massive and well-intentioned national effort to focus the work of our schools on improving reading instruction has failed. But our failure is less one of education policy, than the simple fact that we are wedded to a demonstrably flawed model of how to teach children to read.

There is a way we can sail out of the reading doldrums.
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How real student in the Escalante movie turned out

Those of you who saw the film, Stand and Deliver, might enjoy this pieceI did for the Los Angeles Times on Sunday, about the only real student portrayed in the movie, and her unusual path to success. I will be away for a couple of weeks, but I have all the columns done and scheduled, so there should be something new here nearly every day.
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