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Fort Caspar
Academy is a Core Knowledge school that also utilizes the
Spalding Reading Method and Saxon Mathematics.
Schools need to have a coherent, cumulative core curriculum which instills consensus values such as civic duty, honesty, diligence, perseverance, respect, kindness, and independent-mindedness; which gives students step-by-step mastery of content knowledge in civics, science, teachers, schools, and parents accountable for acceptable progress in achieving these specific year-by-year goals.
- E.D. Hirsch Jr. Author and Educator
Quantifiable results from the Stanford Achievement Tests, the WyCAS assessments, and the District Growth Assessments indicate Fort Caspar Academy's high expectations are being met.
Mainstream research has shown that if children . . . all children, not just the privileged . . . are taught in ways that emphasize hard work, the learning of facts, and rigorous testing, their enthusiasm for school will grow, their test scores will rise, and they will become successful citizens in the information-age civilization.
E. D. Hirsh, Jr. - Author & Educator
Reformers should bear two principles in mind: First of all, they should not lose faith in the power of education to expand the learner's intelligence and life chances.... Second, they should be flexible about educational methods and unbending about ends.... It is an absence of purpose, not a failure of technique, that has brought American education to its present state of embarrassment.
Diane Ravitch, Education Reform Advocate
You people know exactly who you are and what you're trying to do.
Visitor Comment
If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Sir Isaac Newton
For more information about Core Knowledge, click the picture.
Click the picture to go to the Spalding page!
Need help with phonograms?
Click the links below to view and print phonogram charts for use at home.
Phonogram-to-Sound Chart / pdf
Sound-to-Phonogram Chart
/ pdf
Click the picture to go to the Saxon Publishers page!
Overall Educational Philosophy
at Fort Caspar Academy
- Parents are empowered to make decisions and accept the responsibility to work as partners with the school.
- A rigorous, content-specific, sequential curriculum
- Language arts taught by use of the Spalding method (explicit phonics)
- Saxon Math
- The Core Knowledge sequence used in social studies
- Exposure to quality literature
- High expectations for all students
- Character development
- Highly structured, supportive learning environment
- Dress code policy
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