A couple of my colleagues have written about Grover “Russ” Whitehurst’s recent paper on the importance of curriculum in improving schools. To sum it up, Whitehurst, the former director of the federal ...

Curriculum as praxis is based on critical pedagogy (so the work of Paulo Freire, which builds on the critical approaches to education put forward by the Frankfurt school). Such a curriculum would be ...

Young people don’t always know exactly what they want to study, or what their interests are. Flexibility helps. Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock Financial access is ...

Three thousand miles apart, district leaders in Orlando, Fla., and Long Beach, Calif., faced the same problem: They needed to revamp their instructional materials to reflect the Common Core State ...

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have faced significant criticism for perpetuating a development model rooted in economic growth, which contradicts the need to rethink economies rather than ...

In the landscape of K-12 education, attendance has long been viewed as a logistical issue–a checkbox to be marked, a statistic to be tracked. But what if we reimagined attendance not just as a policy ...

Adrian Lam outlines a list of fundamental principles for consideration when shaping a curriculum framework A curriculum is one of the many ways for knowledge to be organised, structured and made ...

Ontario’s revised kindergarten program asks teachers to use both explicit literacy instruction and play-based learning.

Local tribes, schools and nonprofits have developed a new high school curriculum that seeks to encourage environmental advocacy through an Indigenous lens. The advocacy and water protection curriculum ...

A retired curriculum expert who spent years working on Alberta's curriculum rewrite says she warned the government that its change in approach could spell disaster for Alberta's international test ...