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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hillsborough High School physics students Vivek Verghese, 16, (front) gets a bottle rocket ready for launch as Samantha Petruzela, 17, and Nicole Orzel, 16 stand by. (Tony Kurdzuk/The Star-Ledger) ...

Lynne Munson has served as president and executive director of the non-profit Common Core, Inc. since its founding in 2007. Common Core, Inc. is an advocate for the liberal arts and sciences education ...

Parents doing their homework as they shift their children into and throughout East Valley school districts have a core place to start: The classroom. School districts map out their curriculum and ...

This study aimed to use a learning inventory (the Approaches and Study Skills Inventory for Students, ASSIST) to measure the impact of a curriculum change on students' approaches to learning in two ...

That entrepreneurs and small businesses play a key role in job creation and economic growth in South Africa is an accepted reality. But is enough being done to prepare young people for entrepreneurial ...

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 ...