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The World Economic Forum published a report on the global gender gap in January 2020 that concludes gender parity will not be reached for 99.5 years. The report benchmarks 153 countries in four dimensions: Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment.
The Medieval World and Beyond is a series of social studies and history textbooks published by Teachers' Curriculum Institute (TCI). TCI was cofounded by Jim Lobdell . [ 1 ]
This list of global issues presents problems or phenomena affecting people around the world, including but not limited to widespread social issues, economic issues, and environmental issues. Organizations that maintain or have published an official list of global issues include the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum.
In many countries' curricula, social studies is the combined study of humanities, the arts, and social sciences, mainly including history, economics, and civics.The term was coined by American educators around the turn of the twentieth century as a catch-all for these subjects, as well as others which did not fit into the models of lower education in the United States such as philosophy and ...
In congruent to the K-12 Law, the Department of Education made massive changes in the Social Studies curriculum of the Philippines. Initially, Philippine History was included in the 7th grade Social Studies curriculum for the secondary level in 2013. [4] By 2014, the initial K-12 plan for Social Studies underwent an overhaul.
2020s in United States history is a narrative summary of major historical events and issues in the United States from January 1, 2020, through December 31, 2029. The first part is divided chronologically by Congressional sessions and the second part highlights major issues that span several years or even the entire decade.
Some of the first evidence of censorship of school curriculum in the United States comes during the Civil War, when Southern textbook publishers removed material critical of slavery. [7] [8] After the Civil War, a vigorous movement from groups like the United Daughters of the Confederacy in the South promoted the Lost Cause of the Confederacy ...
the creation of curriculum frameworks which outline specific knowledge or skills which students must acquire, an emphasis on criterion-referenced assessments which are aligned to the frameworks, and; the imposition of some high-stakes tests, such as graduation examinations requiring a high standard of performance to receive a diploma.