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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: Knowledge-based K-6 draft curriculum is best for our kids Back to video I just got the book on Thursday an...

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 listen, demonstrations are being planned, and protest signs are beginning to pop up on lawns and min...

The Local This content was paid for by an advertiser and produced by The Local's Creative Studio The Local Creative Studio The Local Creative Studio 08:00 CET 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’. First coined by the French philosopher and sociologist Pierre Bourdieu in 1977, the term refers to the understanding of shared societal and cultural knowledge that allows a person to na...

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 will be revamping its magnet program from Core Knowledge, serving a limited number of students into ...

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 education with adjustable schedules, early college programs, a focus on the arts, technical trades o...