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Usborne Core Knowledge Homeschool Books

The "Core Knowledge" movement is an educational reform based on the premise that a grade-by-grade core of common learning is necessary to ensure a sound and fair elementary education. The movement was started by Dr. E. D. Hirsch, Jr., author of Cultural Literacy and The Schools We Need, and is based on a large body of research in cognitive psychology, as well as a careful examination of several of the world's fairest and most effective school systems. Dr. Hirsch has argued that, for the sake of academic excellence, greater fairness, and higher literacy, early schooling should provide a solid, specific, shared core curriculum in order to help children establish strong foundations of knowledge. After wide consultation, the content of this core curriculum has been outlined in two books -- the Core Knowledge Preschool Sequence and the Core Knowledge Sequence, K-8 -- that state explicitly what students should learn at each grade level.

Usborne homeschool Books recommended for the Core Knowledge Curriculum:

Usborne Core Knowledge Kindergarten Titles

Usborne Core Knowledge 1st Grade Titles

Usborne Core Knowledge 2nd Grade Titles

Usborne Core Knowledge 3rd Grade Titles

Usborne Core Knowledge 4th Grade Titles

Usborne Core Knowledge 5th Grade Titles

Usborne Core Knowledge 6th Grade Titles

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