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The Clay County Education Foundation, which provides curriculum support for the school district, has launched a new Web site. The site - www.clayschools foundation.org - has information about the programs and services offered by the foundation, as well as valuable resources for teachers and school administrators and potential donors. Among other things, the site offers information for parents, information and grant application forms for teachers, awards and events and how individuals can...

By JANESE HEAVIN Columbia Public Schools administrators plan to adopt a traditional approach to teaching elementary math next year, but details of that transition have yet to be hashed out. What curriculum, for instance, will satisfy the community's desire to teach kids standard algorithms and still allow students to conceptually understand numbers? And will older elementary students be able to adjust to traditional math after having had an investigative curriculum, or will the district...

By ANDREW DENHOLM EDUCATION CORRESPONDENT AN internationally renowned academic has accused Scottish universities of failing to contribute to the development of the country's new school curriculum. Professor Richard Teese, who wrote a key report on the current state of Scottish education for the Organisation for Economic Co- operation and Development, believes universities should be playing a greater role in the so-called Curriculum for Excellence. Professor Teese, head of post-compulsory...

By Richard Garner Teachers should address personal development in curriculum, says report PRIMARY SCHOOLS should place just as much emphasis on children's wellbeing and lifestyle as maths and English, says a report being studied by the Government's primary curriculum review team. The report says that teachers should assess pupils on their personal development - looking at issues such as a healthy lifestyle, sex and relationships education and assessing their own self-esteem. The teachers...

By TOPHER SANDERS Middle school students at three Duval County schools are getting a chance to learn science in a new way thanks to a three-year trial of a program that primarily kicks textbooks to the side. Sixth- and seventh-graders at Ribault, Paxon and Kirby-Smith middle schools are participating in the experimental curriculum, called Investigating and Questioning our World through Science and Technology. Developed at the University of Michigan, IQWST focuses on students learning...

By LISA SINK Brookfield -- The Elmbrook School Board has changed its policies so that the board will approve any new lessons and materials used to teach the district's K-12 human growth and development curriculum, including sexual education topics that drew some parental objections. A long-delayed, revised human growth and development curriculum will start to be taught in January, if the School Board approves the lessons and materials that the staff will develop this fall. Still unresolved...

Curriculum Advantage(TM), Inc. today announced that SEDL, a private, nonprofit education research, development, and dissemination organization, has reviewed Classworks Math and Reading for their newly released math and literacy Consumers' Guide. The Consumers Guide to Afterschool Math and Literacy Resources is an initiative of the Program in Education, Afterschool and Resiliency (PEAR) at Harvard University and the National Partnership for Quality Afterschool Learning at SEDL, a program...

By BRANDON LARRABEE ATLANTA - It looks like Georgia students will have to wait until later in their school careers to admire the works of Michelangelo. The State Board of Education is scheduled to approve a set of social studies standards today for sixth and seventh grades that would remove references to the Renaissance and pare down the number of countries students would have to be able to identify on a map. The changes are in response to the state's dismal scores on a social studies test...

By Paula Wolf pwolf@lnpnews.com On family road trips, most parents would do a double take if their 10-year-old child pointed out the window and said, Look Mom, there's a gambrel roof! But thanks to a new curriculum for elementary-age students introduced by the Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County, such a scene might soon not be so far-fetched. Designed for fourth- and fifth-graders, the core curriculum - which debuted last school year - teaches children about architectural...

PORTLAND, Ore., June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Learning.com announces today that it will offer digital mathematics curriculum from Adaptive Curriculum through the Learning.com Digital Learning Environment. This partnership provides educators with the ability to use a single tool for the seamless delivery and use of instructional content from both companies. Sebit, LLC is the developer of Adaptive Curriculum. Learning.com already supports teachers with the ability to create and manage their own...