Stories

Literacy

Teaching History Without Stories? Your Curriculum May Need a Serious Glow Up.

From its founding, the lodestone of the Knowledge Matters Campaign has been evidence-based, content-rich English language arts (ELA) curricula. A possible unintended consequence of the success of...

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Charter Schools

So, How Did I Do? A Response to My 2024 Predictions on Education

Last February, I went out on a limb and made ten predictions about what we’d see this year regarding policy and practice. At the time, I said: “Unlike cable news pundits, who rarely hold themselves...

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Social Emotional Learning

Here's Why We Must Teach Democracy in Public Schools

We believe in the more perfect union described in the soaring opening sentence of this country’s Constitution. We all must believe in it for the country to endure. And for it to endure, we in...

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Diversity

How Do We Make Our Classrooms Feel Like Home to Each and Every Student?

For context, I’m a first-generation Ghanaian American who has spent all but three years of my life living outside of Ghana. While I mostly understand my family’s home language, Twi, I grew up not...

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Curriculum

Walters Recruits Project 2025 and Prager U Architects for Social Studies Overhaul for Oklahoma Schools

In the latest showdown in America’s culture war on public education, Ryan Walters, the Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction, is tapping Kevin Roberts of The Heritage Foundation and Dennis...

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