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Massachusetts Department of Education outlines curriculum frameworks for history and English.
Chandler Preparatory Academy, Phoenix, AZ.
Core Knowledge Resources provides a guide to shared content for greater excellence and fairness in education.
International Baccalaureate offers three programs of international education for ages 3 to 19. To learn about the International Baccalaureate in action, visit Rufus King High School’s website. Rufus King is a public school in Milwaukee, WI, with one of the oldest International Baccalaureate programs in the nation.
K12 Online Courses works to enable mastery of core concepts and skills for all kinds of children’s minds.
Junior Great Books program helps develop essential literacy skills.
NEH’s Picturing America allows people of all ages to learn about our nation’s heritage through some of our greatest works of art.
Siskiyou County History Day has local 4th to 12th graders compete in various categories based on themes that change yearly. Winners go on to compete in California’s State History Day.
Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning provides drama, music, and movement education for children 3–5 and their teachers and families.
The Gilder Lehrman Institute offers resources for teachers who use primary documents to excite and inform their students.
The Dallas Institute's three-week Summer Institute for Teachers provides educators the opportunity for intensive study of primary texts.
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Spring 2010 • The new issue of the AFT's American Educator shines a light on 21st century skills, featuring contributions from Common Core's Lynne Munson and Laura Bornfreund, eduwonk Andy Rotherham and UVA's Dan Willingham, Diana Senechal, and Diane Ravitch.
December 4 • EdWeek profile questions motives of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills.
November 10 • You can now read Diane RavitchÕs op/ed on 21st century skills in the Boston Globe, Providence Journal, Metro West Daily News, Lowell Sun, and Quincy Patriot Ledger.
November 3 • Education Week highlights Common Core's concerns about the appointment of a P21 leader to a key Dept. of Education post.
November • Lynne Munson and Richard Kessler explain why arts education is vital in the November 2009 issue of Parenting magazine.
October 10 • Diane Ravitch's recent op/ed on 21st century skills has been reprinted in the Providence Journal.
September 16 • A group of prominent scholars, teachers, education reform advocates, and union leaders issued a statement today expressing concern about the program put forth by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21) and calling for its revision. Press Advisory (pdf)
September 15 • Common Core’s Diane Ravitch shows how dated the idea of “21st century skills” really is in the Boston Globe
July 13 • Common Core’s Lynne Munson raises concerns about national standards at convention of the American Federation of Teachers. (PDF document)
July 9 • In USAToday Common Core’s Lynne Munson argues that a comprehensive education is more likely than a STEM education to produce new scientists.
July 2 • A USAToday editorial cites and links to Common Core’s “Still at Risk”" study which showed how little our 17-year-olds know about history and literature.
June 2 • Common Core releases Why We’re Behind: What Top Nations Teach Their Students But We Don’t, a report showing that the nations that consistently outrank us on international comparison tests provide their students with a fulsome education in the liberal arts and sciences. Why is this news? Because the U.S. is moving further and further away from this model. Read brief excerpts from the documents featured in the report here.
