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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What was the school? Why was in under-enrolled? What was your experience of teaching Core Knowledge, especially to low-SES students? In what ways was it better than Common Core?

Asking for my own edification. I am aware of DCPS's attachment to its current curriculum but anything is possible on a longer timeline and if there are evidence-based reasons why we should switch, I'd love to know what they are.[/quote]

The school where I taught was Mary Church Terrell Elementary School in Southeast.

A lot of schools in SE and NE were under-enrolled for various reasons. Demographic changes. Proliferation of charters. The lottery. School safety.

I loved teaching this curriculum.  My students in Southeast were hungry for knowledge.  I didn't patronize them and they thrived on it. I run into my former students all the time. They tell me about how much more they knew than their classmates in middle school and high school. They are proud of the fact that they were reading Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Frederick Douglass in 5th grade.

Here's your reading list:

Natalie Wexler, Elementary Education Has Gone Terribly Wrong https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/08/the-radical-case-for-teaching-kids-stuff/592765/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share&fbclid=IwAR35IuA3ykBDy_IpTv8y6-oBXhhN4zQVjIrodwMxQ7sjuwlrXhRgxF6P-Rk

Daniel Willingham, How to Get Your Mind to Read, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/25/opinion/sunday/how-to-get-your-mind-to-read.html

Robert Pondiscio, Don’t Dismiss That 30 Million-Word Gap Quite So Fast. https://www.educationnext.org/dont-dismiss-30-million-word-gap-quite-fast/[/quote]

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