Several educators involved in drafting the new curriculum plan said they did not have enough time to thoroughly review the proposed standards and make changes. The State Board of Education is ...

MALDEN — The amount of class time Massachusetts students spend on the arts varies widely, according to state officials, with the average elementary schooler’s instruction coming in two 45-minute ...

As the draft common standards undergo their final revisions, many minds are turning to the question of how to put them into practice in classrooms. But as a recent meeting of leading educators and ...

A draft of the California math curriculum framework went online Wednesday for public comments and suggestions. While weighing in at 1,200 pages, the document is actually a readable grade-by-grade ...

NEW BEDFORD — While area schools follow outdated sex education curriculum guidelines from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, some districts and schools are making strides in ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The largest district in Oregon is adopting both a brand new curriculum and instructional framework across all its schools. Portland Public Schools (PPS) officials said it’s been ...

Some digitally enabled K–12 schools find it difficult to provide appropriate lesson plans that can be accessed by all students, said Tim Clark, director of curriculum, instruction and digital learning ...

The Common Core State Standards state what students should master, but they are not a curriculum. Jumping from the standards to create lesson plans misses a crucial middle step of developing a ...

Education experts have long argued for rigorous state standards on the theory they’ll lead to better curriculum—and higher student achievement. But in most of the U.S., literacy standards have only ...

Calls for shared curricula for the common standards have triggered renewed debates about who decides what students learn, and even about varied meanings of the word “curriculum,” adding layers of ...