New Needs, New Curriculum

Only if we refine their capacities for judgment, critical thinking, literacy, collaboration, and service will we prepare students for the future.

Curriculum mapping offers educators opportunities to reexamine the content they teach.

The author of A Place Called School reminds us of our mission to eradicate social inequalities.

The authors ponder the economic and social factors that will shape schools in the future.

Why we must weave real and relevant examples of minority contributions throughout the curriculum.

Why it would be wise—at least some of the time—to shelve authoritarian texts and open students' minds to more provocative trade books.

To make the best use of the bandwidth, Web projects must stretch students' minds.

The Smithsonian's resources invite students to think as historians do.

A focus on enduring understandings encourages students to tackle essential questions.

New initiatives preserve our ecology, heritage, and well-being.

High school students turn into activists as they explore public health and science issues.

This health education project develops standards-based resources and rubrics.

The challenge of real-world tasks invigorates learning.

Millions of dollars worth of ads are directed at children, and school is often where kids get the messages.