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Article content Beyond the partisan sniping, the crux behind the war of words raging over Alberta’s new draft kindergarten to Grade 6 curriculum can be boiled down between the teaching of knowledge or the teaching of skills. The draft curriculum wants to focus on teaching a knowledge-rich curriculum, and the loud critics of the proposed new curriculum are proponents of a skill-based curriculum. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Corbella: Knowled...

Article content Earlier this week, the provincial government released its new draft curriculum, and despite claims by Jason Kenney to the contrary, it is being met with widespread rejection and condemnation. Since the draft was released on March 29, there have been statements of concern from the Alberta Teachers’ Association, academic experts, the Metis Nation of Alberta (MNA), and the Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations. Parent councils are mobilizing to write letters to anyone who will ...

The Local This content was paid for by an advertiser and produced by The Locals Creative Studio The Local Creative Studio The Local Creative Studio 08:00 CET When we send our children to school, we expect that theyll learn how to read and write, to understand how the natural world works and how to measure things. Not as widely considered, but perhaps equally important is the idea of ‘cultural capital’. First coined by the French philosopher and sociologist Pierre Bourdieu in 1977, the ter...

Muscogee County School Board approves district-wide magnet program focused on engineering Muscogee County School Board approves district-wide magnet program focused on engineering By Brennan Reh | February 16, 2021 at 11:58 PM EST - Updated February 17 at 12:11 AM COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - The Muscogee County School Board voted to approve several items on its agenda , including a new engineering magnet program and a few items related to coronavirus funding. Downtown Elementary Magnet Academy ...

Twenty-eight years after the first charters opened in Colorado, they’re more popular than ever, statistics show. They’ve become desirable because there’s something for everyone, said Amanda Oberg, spokeswoman for the Colorado Charter School Institute. With leniency allowed in governance, curriculum and operations, charter schools use educational models such as classical education, Core Knowledge curriculum, project-based learning, language immersion, the Montessori technique, alternative ...

Column: Common curriculum would boost national unity Patricia Smith While there is consensus that our country is deeply divided, there is confusion about the causes. E.D. Hirsch offers an explanation in his new book "How to Educate a Citizen: The Power of Shared Knowledge to Unify a Nation."  He points out that democratic republics such as ours are fragile, often collapsing because of citizens’ varying politics, religions and ethnic backgrounds. Being aware of these natural antagonisms, our ...

When we send our children to school, we expect that they'll learn how to read and write, to understand how the natural world works and how to measure things. Not as widely considered, but perhaps equally important is the idea of ‘cultural capital’.

Dear Community Members: The Racine Unified School District is considering launching a new charter school, the Racine Scholars Academy, in 2021. Fifty-two years ago, Racine was selected to be part of the largest experiment in the history of education. Already seeing gains from the fast-growing Head Start program, educational leaders in the War on Poverty, proposed a massive experiment into what educational strategies worked best in grades K-3. Ten different approaches were identified to address ...

LAKE LURE — In a vote cast by her fellow educators, Lake Lure Classical Academy recently celebrated Nancy Sarratt as its 2020-2021 Teacher of the Year. Sarratt has been with the school since its 2010 inception. She taught second grade for nine years and is currently in her second year teaching fifth grade. She came out of retirement to join the teaching team at LLCA. She and her family were recently invited to a socially-distanced reception in the school gymnasium surrounded by her fellow ...

Because every child needs phonics. we also need core knowledge. i think people have underestimated how important it is to have foundational knowledge in order to read. you have to know something to learn something. and if you take out history and science out of the school system, youre going to disadvantage kids. >> but youre also taking the best and the brightest, those who you dont take, those who are at the bottom, what are they left with? because theyre spending trillions of dollars on educa...