High school cadets will be marching to the tune of standards-based school initiatives beginning in the fall. The Army Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps will unveil a new curriculum that is ...

Using funding we received from the National Institute of Standards and Technology for Standards-Based Curriculum Across Risk Prevention Management System Domains: Health, Safety, Environmental & ...

Curriculum and related frameworks (conceptual underpinnings or guiding principles for curriculum design), as well as materials, instruction, and assessment aligned with strong curricula—are critical ...

St. Joseph Parish School, 32946 Electric Blvd. in Avon Lake, which is part of the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, is making strides in educational innovation by embracing standards-based grading. St.

As the Director of Teaching and Learning at Amherst Regional Public Schools, I am frequently asked, "Why should school districts spend money on published curriculum materials?" Would it not make more ...

As the draft common standards undergo their final revisions, many minds are turning to the question of how to put them into practice in classrooms. But as a recent meeting of leading educators and ...

Students at RIT are learning about risk management and planning even before entering the workplace through a new series of systems-based educational tools integrating community and enterprise risk and ...

Education CS Amina Mohamed flags off a lorry carrying the competency-based curriculum textbooks on January 7. [Beverlyne Musili, Standard] The new Competence Based curriculum is underway. For majority ...

Standards-based grading (SBG)—or competency-based grading—measures student progress relative to specific learning standards. This system of evaluation isolates the learning of content and mastery of ...

Former Director of Quality Assurance in the Ministry of Education Mr Enos Oyaya has described the recently introduced Competence Based Curriculum (CBC) as the way to go in a rapidly changing world ...

Traditional letter grades have been around since the beginning of the 20th century. Today’s parents received As, Bs, and Cs from their teachers when they were in school, and most parents expect to see ...

The Journal of Education, Vol. 194, No. 2, EARLY CAREER SCHOLARS (2014), pp. 25-34 (10 pages) In this article, we draw upon Remillard and Bryans' (2004) categorization of curriculum use in ...