https://RationalAmerica.com/tags/knowledge-rich-curriculum/Recent content in Knowledge-Rich Curriculum on Rational AmericaHugoen-usSun, 11 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0400https://RationalAmerica.com/posts/2026-10-11-are-you-designing-a-primary-curriculum-that-ignore/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0400https://RationalAmerica.com/posts/2026-10-11-are-you-designing-a-primary-curriculum-that-ignore/<h1 id="are-you-designing-a-primary-curriculum-that-ignores-reason">Are You Designing a Primary Curriculum That Ignores Reason?</h1> <p>Do you ever look at your school’s curriculum map and feel a quiet, guilty thought creep in: <em>this looks less like a plan and more like a buffet of competing trends?</em></p> <p>One term, pupils spend six weeks “discovering” the Great Fire of London through drama, baking bread, building cardboard houses and writing a letter from Samuel Pepys. The next term, you’re told to teach “skills for the 21st century”, so the history gets shelved, replaced by generic critical-thinking worksheets that could apply to absolutely any topic and therefore apply to none. The result is a curriculum that moves fast, wears everyone out, and still leaves children with the same patchy knowledge and the same repeated questions by Year 6.</p>