Curriculum & Instruction

American Bar Association americanbar.org/groups/civics Civic Education Washington State civiced-wa.org Civics Renewal Network civicsrenewalnetwork.org Constitutional Rights Foundation crf-usa.org LINK TO MAIN ARTICLE: Civics education encourages K12 students to get involved Massachusetts Center for Civic Education masscivics.org Project Citizen civiced.org/programs/project-citizen Street Law Inc. streetlaw.org We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution civiced.org/programs/wtp

An increasing number of educators use elements of the design-thinking process—empathize, define, ideate, prototype and test—to find solutions to and think analytically about the many ails plaguing the world around them. Michael Cohen, printmaking and design expert turned educator, says district leaders can use design thinking to address systemic educational issues such as high dropout […]

Nongongoma Majova-Seane has led Stanton College Preparatory School to rank in the top 10 percent of U.S. schools. Nongongoma Majova-Seane is principal of Stanton College Preparatory School, which has been named the No. 1 Florida high school for three consecutive years and continues to rank in the top 10 percent of U.S. schools. Majova-Seane has boosted reading […]

Civics—a mainstay in public schools for generations, but widely sidelined in recent years—is making a comeback. At the federal level, pending Senate legislation would require federal grant recipients to teach the U.S. Constitution—vital for students to understand the “fundamental principles and values on which our system is based” says Chuck Quigley, executive director for the […]

In her book, After the Education Wars: How Smart Schools Upend the Business of Reform (The New Press, 2018), Andrea Gabor shows how corporate philanthropists have hurt, rather than helped, public education. From limiting the ability of teachers to do their job, to making poor-quality test results bellwethers of effective teaching, this influence has alienated […]

Multiage classrooms are, by design, more focused on projects and interdisciplinary learning than traditional, teacher-focused classrooms. For that reason, they usually look different than traditional classrooms full of desks. Furnishing a multiage classroom focuses on these priorities: Flexibility. Tables and chairs, rather than individual student desks, are the norm—and they’re regularly rearranged to accommodate the […]