Education Week: Curriculum And Learning

California, Massachusetts, and Oklahoma are working on ways to promote, and measure, creativity and innovation in their schools.

Brought together by the Aspen Institute, chief academic officers were introduced to strategies to teach reading from new perspectives.

The professional development needed to support teachers' part in the common-core standards has remained an afterthought, Stephanie Hirsh writes.

The use of practical applications in the science classroom, like model-building and data analysis, can help students make critical STEM connections, write Jean Moon and Susan Rundell Singer.

More than 500,000 Kentucky public school students will take the state's new K-Prep test for the first time this spring.

Experts say the real power of open education resources comes not from the fact that they are free, but from the ability to customize the content.

Schools must restore the place of character education in learning, Joseph Gauld writes.

Individualized instruction is critical to providing true 21st-century education, David V. Hicks writes.

Educators and experts say students still need to learn penmanship, even in a digital age.

The technology company announces content partnerships with major education publishers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill, and Pearson.

A parent's objection to a recent lesson on slavery illustrates the often tricky role teachers must play when discussing sensitive topics.

The Colorado board of education has voted unanimously to approve rules establishing new quality standards for online schools and make them subject to the same scrutiny as traditional schools when they miss those standards.

A controversial state law approved in July amid heated debate isn't likely to affect California classrooms any time soon.

National health and education groups say the standards are the minimum students should know about sexual and relationship health in grades K-12.

Just as single-sex schools are undergoing scrutiny in the U.S., a Caribbean study schools finds that they are academically beneficial for girls who prefer that environment but not for most boys or girls.

CPS is hoping that schools use the extra time for such things as intervention programs, and to move overachieving students beyond grade level.

Districts, however, must approve of the new materials, and parents must pay for them.