Curriculum Matters
This blog covered news on the common core, literacy, math, STEM, social studies, the arts, and other curriculum and instruction topics. This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: common core, reading & literacy, mathematics, STEM, social studies, and curriculum.
Education
Need a Primer on Education Week's Civics Project? Listen to This EWA Podcast
Listen to the Education Writers Association's interview with reporter Stephen Sawchuk on the core themes in Education Week's Citizen Z civics education reporting project.
Social Studies
Ways to Improve Civic Engagement and Student Voice: An EdWeek Chat
Take in the highlights and strategies from Education Week's recent online chat on improving civics education and student voice.
Reading & Literacy
Students Increasingly Are Not Reading Over the Summer, Poll Finds
The Scholastic survey also finds that knowledge helps: Parents who know about "summer slide" make more efforts to help their child keep reading.
Social Studies
History Instruction Indicted: Too Much Memorization, Too Little Meaning
Students in U.S. classrooms are startingly ignorant of American history, but it's not because their teachers have failed them. It's because the curriculum in most schools focuses on memorizing "irrelevant, boring" names and dates, a new study finds.
Science
This Tool Can Help Identify 'STEM Deserts.' But It Needs Your Feedback
The National Math and Science Initiative's new tool aims to help the field look for patterns in STEM data, so educators and policy folks can fill in holes.
School & District Management
Battle Over Reading: Parents of Children With Dyslexia Wage Curriculum War
A program to teach children with dyslexia how to read, will now be used with every child in Arkansas. Parents led the way—forcing the state to rethink reading.
Reading & Literacy
High School Paper Publishes Article on Student in Porn Industry After Censorship Fight
The Bruin Voice plans to publish their sex-worker story this week, despite the school district's attempts to screen the content beforehand.
Social Studies
Youth Activists Petition for 2020 Presidential Candidate Debate on Environmental Policy
The petition drive has so far received more than 51,000 signatures and support from five Democratic presidential candidates.
Social Studies
Teaching Kids About Online Political Engagement Works. Should We Do It More?
Helping kids understand and engage in politics online makes them more likely to keep doing it. But is that a good thing?
Reading & Literacy
Meet the Moms Pushing for a Reading Overhaul in Their District
Two Pennsylvania moms had kids who were struggling readers; now they're advocating for their district to overhaul its entire approach to literacy.
Curriculum
Lawsuit Takes Aim at Arizona's 'Anti-Gay' Curriculum Law
Arizona is one of seven states where teachers are prohibited from portraying homosexuality in a positive way.
Social Studies
Parkland Students Led Surge in Youth Turnout. But Some of Their Votes Didn't Count
Young Parkland residents had much higher rates of having their ballots go uncounted or rejected than did young people in other parts of Florida.
Social Studies
Tensions Over Teaching About the Middle East Resonate in Lawsuit
A Massachusetts lawsuit seeks to remove specific texts from a district's curriculum on the Middle East, and singles out individual teachers.
Social Studies
Students Swarm the Capitol Grounds to Protest Climate Change
Hundreds of students protested by the U.S. Capitol as part of an international movement to demand policies to curb climate change.