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Curriculum What Teenagers Think About the First AmendmentHigh school students show more support for the First Amendment today than they did 15 years ago, according to new report. But girls and students of color are more likely than boys and white students to say the amendment "goes too far."
Curriculum As Thanksgiving Approaches, 'Unlearning' History ContinuesThanksgiving offers schools an opportunity to take a hard look at narratives that minimize colonial oppression of Native Americans.
Curriculum Without Rules, Credit Recovery Is Just an 'Easy Ticket to Graduation,' Report SaysToo many districts that use a lot of credit recovery to enable students to finish high school don't have sufficient policy safeguards to ensure that those catch-up courses are high quality, according to a new report.
Curriculum Could Digital Resources Help Teachers Reach LGBTQ Students?Some school districts and states are just beginning to think more broadly about how to best make sure that LGTBQ, non-binary, and other students are included in curriculum, professional development, and classroom discussions.
Curriculum Students Are Really, Really Bad at Spotting Fake News, Misleading WebsitesEven the digital generation has a hard time recognizing when online information is biased or has been doctored, according to a new survey by Stanford University researchers.
Curriculum Should High Schools Rethink How They Sequence Math Courses?Most students don't aspire to careers that will require calculus, so high schools must create sequences of math courses that reflect the wide variety of young people's occupational goals, a math advocacy group argues in a new report.
Curriculum Educators Will Soon Be Able to Sell Their Materials on AmazonThe platform, Amazon Ignite, will allow teachers to sell lesson plans and curriculum materials by topic, in subjects like math, language arts, social studies, technology, and science.
Curriculum 7 Signs That Your School Newspaper Risks CensorshipA new report outlines danger signs of censorship at student-run newspapers.
Curriculum Drug Education Curriculum Moves Beyond 'Just Say No' to Teach Harm ReductionAfter decades of abstinence-only drug education, a new health curriculum is taking a different approach to teaching about substance use.
Curriculum Opinion Author Interview: 'Be Excellent on Purpose'Sanée Bell agreed to answer a few questions about her new book, "Be Excellent On Purpose: Intentional Strategies for Impactful Leadership."
Curriculum This Banned Books Week, Stories With LGBTQ Themes Dominate the Most-Challenged ListSix of the 11 listed books were banned for including LGBTQ stories—and one has been challenged for promoting stereotypes about Mexicans.
Curriculum When Teens Are in Violent Relationships, Should Principals Step In?A survey of high school principals reveals that more than half of school leaders say they have dealt with an incident of teen dating violence recently, but many of them aren't clear what their role should be.
Curriculum Math Teachers Take a Page From English/Language Arts: Comic Books!Comic books and graphic novels, popular in many language arts and social studies classes, are just now tiptoeing into the world of K-12 math.Curriculum Letter to the Editor Public Schools, Change or PerishTo the Editor:
Education Week featured an article from The Hechinger Report about the would-be innovation school Powderhouse Studios in Somerville, Mass. ("They Had a Bold Idea for a New School and $10M in Funding. So Why Did It Fail?," Aug. 15, 2019).
Curriculum What Are the Limits of Free Speech? A Classroom Discussion for Constitution DayThrough a conversation on the First Amendment, students at two high schools in Nebraska and Illinois learned how to argue like constitutional scholars.
