Current accountability models, focused on compliance and standardized testing, must be replaced with systems that encourage innovation and local community participation, aligning with learners’ needs and strengths. Reciprocal accountability ensures all stakeholders, including students, educators, and governments, share responsibility for educational outcomes, promoting continuous improvement and equitable resource distribution.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, test scores and student GPA across the globe have fallen due to a rocky restart to in-classroom learning, but it wasn’t just closed school policies that brought about this decline. Our current educational system is outdated, rooted in centuries-old methodologies. We still prioritize efficient knowledge delivery, ...

Credit environmentally conscious students — and a handful of state funding programs The curriculum, focused on bringing the farm into the school, had an effect beyond the classroom: Primer found that, after learning about and planting ingredients that they then used to make simple meals like veggie burgers, students were ...

With Thanksgiving and National Native American Heritage Month celebrations on the horizon in November, there are ways that schools can look to local organizations representing Indigenous people to ensure lessons and curricula involving Native Americans are accurate. One good place to start is by taking stock of what curricula may already be ...