Core Knowledge Gaining Ground

RALEIGH — Core Knowledge has become a nationally recognized K-8 curriculum, built on an inventory of essential cultural, social and academic knowledge. Core Knowledge founder E.D. Hirsch, a former English professor at the University of Virginia, said the program “is based on principles held by the best scientists” and contains the information that is “taken for granted” in spoken and written language in our society. “It doesn’t embrace a partisan ideology, except the classical idea of a democratic education, one that seeks to give the child only the best we can give them.”