A Call to Support the All-Honors Curriculum

Editorial: Education support for all?

Two weeks into the start of the new school year, things appear to be running smoothly. Typically, at the beginning of every school year, numerous complaints from teachers, parents, and students are vented in the media. These often include incomplete remedial work to school infrastructure, inadequate teachers for core subjects at secondary school in particular, and other staffing issues. But as they say, so far, so good. Over the years, schools h…

A call to support the All-Honors Curriculum

Seven years ago, after analyzing student data and concluding that OPRF High School’s institutional practice of tracking perpetuated educational inequity, District 200 declared its commitment to a “transformative restructuring” of the freshman curriculum (OPRF Restructured Freshman Curriculum Analysis Report, September 2024). Then, after extensive research, teachers created the Freshman All-Honors Curriculum which now benefits the majority of stu…