A Backward Glance O’er Travel’d Roads
by Robert PondiscioJanuary 7th, 2013
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After over 5 years and 1500 posts, this will be my final blog entry as host of the Core Knowledge Blog.
The good news – no, great news – is that the blog will continue to host an ongoing conversation on curriculum, literacy, teaching and learning. It will continue to make the case for a content-rich education as the indispensable key to language proficiency,vocabulary growth, critical thinking, problem solving and nearly all of the big picture goalswe prize in education. A guy named E.D. Hirsch will be taking over this space for now. I believe you’ve heard of him.
K-12 education looked very different when this blog launched in December 2007. The education reform discussion largely revolved around structural concerns—teacher quality, testing, charter schools, school choice, and the like. This blog expressed frustration early and often at the blithe lack of concern among policymakers