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These highly skilled parents came together to not just solve their own kids' education needs but offer a high-quality education to families in their glorious Colorado mountain town.Merit Academy of Woodland Park, Colorado, opened on Aug. 23 in a buoyant ceremony featuring American flags and a teenage rider riding a dun horse while waving the school flag. The new public school went from idea to reality in just one year, opening K-8 with plans to grow into high school. As a classical school, it offers a low-screen, high-relationship environment and a focus on creative and critical thinking through careful attention...

Educators at Chandler’s Humphrey Elementary School hope to teach knowledge down to a core next year. The kindergarten- through sixth-grade campus is adopting a nationally known content program for its students that is becoming more popular in Arizona.

In a bid to correct what he called a “knowledge deficit” among New York City public school students, Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein announced on Monday a pilot program that would overhaul the way children in 10 city schools are taught to read. The program, devised by E. D. Hirsch Jr.’s Core Knowledge Foundation, is being paid for with $2.4 million in private donations raised by the Fund for Public Schools. Called the New York City Core Knowledge Early Literacy Project, it will run for three years, following kindergartners at the 10 schools through the first and second grades. The...

<p>Jordan and Jessica Whall are two years apart, but they're both studying the same basic concepts at Grayhawk Elementary School in Scottsdale.</p> <p>Jordan, 11, is just learning at a higher level than his 9-year-old sister.</p> <p>The approach is called Core Knowledge, an educational curriculum that is becoming popular with parents in Arizona and throughout the country.</p>