A dramatic shift in elementary school education is yielding impressive results. Currently most U.S. schools prioritize “skills-based learning”—where the skill a student is learning, like finding the main idea in a passage, is more important than the subject matter. But some schools are exploring “knowledge building” programs that instead organize curriculum by topics, like trees or Greek myths. Classes that have restructured to let students deep-dive into one area are pulling ahead in performance. (The Atlantic)
