Curriculum & Instruction

Metrostudy released the Metrostudy School District Report, a proactive tool to give school districts across the U.S. the ability to understand their local populations in order to efficiently deliver services and plans for the future.

Personalized pacing has great value, but adapting it for the classroom brings up the age-old tension in education—we have a certain amount of work to do, and only a certain amount of time in which to do it. Personalized pacing also runs the risk of reducing education to a checklist of items to complete.

Currently, there is a push in the U.S. to incorporate internet information classes into primary and secondary school curriculum. The movement aims to make fact-checking seem like second nature to individuals at an early age so they will be less vulnerable to agenda-driven information sources throughout their life

Dyslexia legislation is important so that students are not left to “wait to fail” before receiving screening, diagnosis and evidence-based instruction. New legislation in Massachusetts now requires the state education department to issue guidelines about screening procedures and protocols for students that show neurological learning disability indicators.

LRP Media Group, parent company of District Administration, has acquired Atlantic Research Partners’ National Superintendents Academy. The first cohort of the superintendent training program will launch in February 2019, with subsequent academies to be announced later, says Robert Avossa, senior vice president and publisher, education products, for LRP. “We are excited to launch DA’s National […]

At a few remote Alaska schools, produce ranging from tomatoes and squash to bok choy and cilantro is grown in greenhouses heated by wood-fired boilers. This provides fresh greens and vegetables for the school lunch program in communities where some residents have to drive two hours, one way, to the nearest grocery store. Southeast Island […]