Curriculum and instruction
The Trump administration is launching a $14 million teacher training initiative in connection with the semiquincentennial. It aims to help teachers focus on the founding principles and documents and why they matter today.
A recent Supreme Court ruling that supported parents’ religious right to opt their child out of LGBTQ-inclusive lessons could aid parents worried about a new curriculum that draws heavily on texts like the Book of Genesis and the Sermon on the Mount.
The Trump administration says the changes affecting Climate.gov are about ‘restoring gold standard science.’ But science educators worry about losing the free classroom resources it has provided.
The Trump administration cut a prestigious national award for STEM teachers, prompting a campaign to save it.
Board members debated Columbus, colonizers, and Black Lives Matter during several meetings about choosing a curriculum.
Columbia Secondary is reeling from an exodus of teachers and student-led protests. The turmoil comes as a new principal has shifted the school’s culture and curriculum.
Families in Montgomery County, Maryland, are allowed to opt their children out of reading books featuring LGBTQ characters and themes if the content conflicts with their religious beliefs, the Supreme Court decided. A federal appeals court will continue to consider the parents’ case.
The Science Research Mentoring Program at the American Museum of Natural History prepares high school students for science careers.
Here’s what I learned developing a unit on the Underground Railroad - and why we changed course.
Mayor Eric Adams announced the ‘fly’ initiative to bring financial educators, free counseling, and in-school banking to NYC students, starting with 15 districts this fall.
A new RAND study finds that students' ideas about themselves as math learners often form at an early age, with big implications for middle and high school.
Historian and former NYC teacher Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, the lead scholar on a new Jewish American history curriculum, hopes it will inform students and foster empathy.
The ruling could have long-lasting impacts on what some schools teach and how far they go to accommodate religious objections to curriculum.
Republican board members criticized the proposal as biased, one-sided, and ‘indoctrination.’
Episode 2 of P.S. Weekly explores the patchwork approach New York City takes to sex education and why students are demanding a different approach.
Through Artist Youth Entrepreneurs, a pilot program at the High School of Art and Design, students are learning about key legal and financial concepts in artistic fields.
The conservative group’s new training program seeks to drive activism against social and emotional learning in schools.
At least two Colorado high schools will cut their Latin programs in the coming years.
Lawmakers discussed and in some cases advanced bills about sex ed, DEI, restrictions on history lessons, and chaplains in schools.
The federal government is barred from dictating curriculum to schools. But a new Trump executive order concerning how racism and gender identity are talked about in schools sends a signal about how he wants to influence classrooms.