Media Type: Column
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A Tipping Point for Knowledge
Education Week: New Tool to Evaluate Reading Programs for ‘Knowledge-Building’
The 74: Championing High-Quality Literacy Instruction: Inside Knowledge Matters’ New Curriculum Review Tool
The Baltimore Banner: Commentary: Interim superintendent brings opportunity to raise student performance
Scaling the “Dinosaur Effect”: Topic vs. Theme in Elementary Classrooms
Most primary teachers and parents of early-grade children will recognize what we’ve dubbed the “dinosaur effect,” marveling at the capacity of young children to capitalize on their passionate interests in, say, dinosaurs—to learn and retain astounding stores of knowledge about everything dinosaurs. How does this happen? It turns out research has an answer.