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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A review of the English school curriculum is currently underway. The review’s recently released interim report makes clear that the current education system is not working well for all young people – ...