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 ...

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 ...

Danielle Kelsick can pinpoint the moment she realized she wanted to teach. At the time, Kelsick, now the chief academic officer at Environmental Charter Schools in Los Angeles County, was running a ...

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 ...

What is a spiral curriculum? Spiral curriculum is model of education/ learning theory in which learning occurs by “an iterative revisiting of topics, subjects or themes throughout the course” (Harden ...

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 ...

Financial access is extremely important for poor and working class students wanting to get a foot in the door at universities. But on its own this isn’t a guarantee of success. South Africa has very ...