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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh my goodness I love core knowledge!! I’ve been using it for my homeschool curriculum and it is so fun! DS and I had a blast with King Arthur this year. I really hope that APS does it. [/quote]

PP who posted about CKLA. Glad I’m not the only one! I am critical of APS as well but I give credit when credit is due. I do think that this is a good indication that Dr Duran is serious about making some major changes to APS. For some reason I posted a reply to a post on AEM about the report saying that one good thing is that APS might be adopting amplify CKLA and my reply and the post was deleted. Have no idea why. [/quote]

Oh man. That’s really too bad. It’s unfortunate that the core knowledge foundation has a reputation as being more conservative and anti-teacher. I hope there isn’t a big bias against it that way. I mean, right now I’m doing an essay on Robin Hood with DS and he chose to write about how the story suggests that people should rebel against unjust power structures because Robin Hood’s actions were more ethical than those of the sheriff and a church leader! Plus the curriculum has a solid basis in the cognitive science of learning.

Anyway, my kids will miss out on this at school for sure but if it sticks I’ll be recommending APS much more than I do now. [/quote]

Oh interesting I’m foreign so I didn’t know about the history. I do remember reading that criticism that at some point it was too western centric. But my understanding is that they reviewed the curriculum and made a lot of changes.[/quote]

I think it is western-centric but a) with good reason—we live in the west and it’s important for kids to learn where we stand in history and b) it’s not nearly as western-centric as the curriculum I had in school. In our history class we have spent a long time on the European Middle Ages but we are also doing Islamic Middle Ages and African kingdoms during the same time period. And then there is a big unit on china and then you get to the history of the United States. Lots of kids in the US leave high school thinking Africa is a country  where there are lots of lions and zebras. But kids who do core knowledge should know about the powerful and advanced civilizations of Western Africa, and how they were decimated by the trans Atlantic slave trade. So Africa is a *continent* with an diverse history and advanced civilizations. Maybe that’s relatively new though.

Anyway sorry to go on this tangent, but I just really like this curriculum. :) [/quote]

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