We’re not sure if anyone was keeping count at the door, but if we had to wager the price of a kegger on it, more than 65 people crowded into the upstairs bar of Max’s Taphouse for edtech startup ...

Just to keep you up to speed on the Dueling Manifesti about common curriculum: Two of the organizers of Manifesto #2 issued responses to yesterday’s missive by one of the organizers of Manifesto #1.

Common Curriculum's mission, visualized. When Robbie Earle was a Baltimore City Public Schools middle school teacher, he often collaborated with two colleagues while planning. It wasn’t fancy. “Our ...

CU Boulder is moving from planning to implementation of the Common Curriculum, an innovative, faculty‑driven framework that ensures every undergraduate student achieves a shared set of learning ...

Conservatives tend to view enhanced and expanded school choice as a singular lever to improve education outcomes. The logic is clear and compelling, even elegant: When schools compete for students, ...

The Boulder Faculty Assembly on Nov. 3 approved a resolution concerning a campus common curriculum (PDF) that “endorses the substance of the common curriculum, particularly its statement regarding the ...

Think back to the dark days of 2009, when school districts in California and across the nation faced dire budget shortfalls. States would have done almost anything for extra money, and when the Obama ...

Calls for shared curriculum 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 ...

Right now, America's schools are in a sprint. Forty-four states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core State Standards. That means new learning benchmarks for the vast majority of ...