core knowledge

You Missed A Show? Missed a show?  How could you? Okay, besides you have a family and the show is on early Sunday mornings. Then here’s your chance to catch up.  I’ll be posting full breakouts of all the shows we did in 2009 but in the meantime check out any of the shows that [...]

Getting organized – your life, your kids, your house, your car, your office, your closet – it shouldn’t really be that hard, should it? Afterall, it’s one of the very first things they start trying to teach us, the very first time we walk into school (coats on your hook, bags and shoes in the [...]

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Old School vs. New School

by Web on 5, March, 2009

The charter school that my son is at uses a Core Knowledge style structure.  This article highlights the debate of the value of teaching to “modern life skills” vs “core skills”.  In a modern world though shouldn’t computers, typing, etc. be considered “core”? Should Johnny Learn Core or Skills What do you think?