Curriculum
What does ‘career readiness’ look like in middle school?
School districts are pushing career exploration into middle and lower grades, convinced the preparation necessary for tomorrow’s jobs needs to begin earlier
Teaching global warming in a charged political climate
Their training doesn’t cover it, many textbooks don’t touch it, but teachers are taking on climate change anyway
Automation is remaking Mississippi jobs: Are workers ready?
New educational pathways are needed to prepare workers of all ages for tomorrow’s jobs
Project-based learning boosts student engagement, understanding
Kids take projects more seriously and make interdisciplinary connections, teachers say
Teachers go to school on racial bias
Boston-area schools are leading a shift toward culturally responsive teaching. Educators say the resulting conversations about race are difficult, uncomfortable — and absolutely necessary
How colleges can help their students out-compete robots
A reader asks: What do colleges need to offer students so they can succeed in an era of automation?
Inside Maine’s disastrous rollout of proficiency-based learning
How well-intentioned education and business leaders, backed by wealthy foundations and a success story from faraway Alaska, sold state lawmakers on a largely untested theory of change
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Beyond basic reading, kids can learn how to think like a good reader
Making these thinking strategies explicit has helped close achievement gaps between English learners and their peers
How gaps in content knowledge hold students back
The Knowledge Map project helps districts identify content gaps and close them
How do schools train for a workplace that doesn’t exist yet?
A reader asks: Not knowing what tasks will be automated or what future jobs will look like, how should schools prepare students now?