Linda Bevilacqua

Linda Bevilacqua is an educator and former president of the Core Knowledge Foundation. She developed the foundation’s preschool program, which was adopted in more than 1,200 preschool classrooms, and has contributed to national curriculum initiatives, including work related to the Common Core State Standards. She holds a B.S. and M.Ed. from the University of Virginia and has taught and supervised programs for children with learning disabilities.

Bevilacqua edited What Your Preschooler Needs to Know: Read-Alouds to Get Ready for Kindergarten with E.D. Hirsch Jr. and coauthored What Your Preschooler Needs to Know: Activity Books 1 and 2 with Susan B. Hitchcock. She lives with her husband, Jean-Jacques, in Charlottesville, Virginia.