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| title = Learn About Core Knowledge Schools | publisher = Core Knowledge Foundation | url = http://www.coreknowledge.org/about-core-knowledge-schools | access-date = February 3, 2015}}</ref> The Foundation believes that the actual number is much higher, but only counts schools that submit a "profile form" to the Foundation annually.<ref name="about" group="HirschPublications"/> The profile of Core Knowledge Schools in the US is diverse—including public, charter, private and parochial schools in urban, suburban and rural locations. Independent nonprofit GreatSchools.org reports that more than 400 of these schools are preschools.<ref group="HirschPublications">{{Citation | last = Jacobson | first = Linda | title = Core Knowledge Schools | publisher = GreatSchools.org | url = http://www.greatschools.org/school-choice/core-knowledge/6988-core-knowledge-schools.gs?page=2 | access-date = February 3, 2015}}</ref>
In his 2014 article published by [[Thomas B. Fordham Institute]], [[Robert Pondiscio]], the author of ''[[How the Other Half Learns]]'' in which he reviewed [[Success Academy Charter Schools|Success Academy]], Pondiscio said if the [[Common Core State Standards Initiative]] was "properly understood and implemented", it would be a "delivery mechanism" for Hirsch's "ideas and work" and his Core Knowledge curriculum.<ref name="Fordham_Pondiscio_20140904">{{Citation | last = Pondiscio | first = Robert | title = Connecting the dots: E. D. Hirsch, Jr., and Common Core | newspaper = Common Core Watch Blog | date = September 4, 2014 | url = http://edexcellence.net/articles/connecting-the-dots-e-d-hirsch-jr-and-common-core | access-date = February 7, 2015}}</ref> Hirsch was not directly involved in developing the Common Core State Standards adopted in 46 states and the District of Columbia, some education watchers credit E. D. Hirsch as having provided the "intellectual foundation" for the initiative.<ref name="Stern_200908"/><ref name="Politico_Tyre_201409">{{Citation | last = Tyre | first = Peg | title = I've Been a Pariah for So Long | newspaper = Politico Magazine | date = September 2014 | url = http://www.politico.com/magazine/politico50/2014/ive-been-a-pariah-for-so-long.html | access-date = February 2, 2015}}</ref> Pondiscio said that ''Politico'' had paired [[David Coleman]]—main author of the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts—with Hirsch in eight place on their 2014 list of fifty "thinkers, doers and dreamers who really matter."<ref name="Fordham_Pondiscio_20140904"/><ref name="Politico_Tyre_201409"/>
=== Reviews of Hirsch's work===
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