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The new UCP curriculum has been marred with controversy this past week.
Education Minister Adriana LaGrange unveiled plans for a new draft curriculum for K-6 students, which would see an increased focus on financial literacy, sexual consent and European history, including expectations around memorizing lists of facts, dates, and names.
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Teachers in select classrooms will start teaching some of that curriculum as soon as September, but the majority were not part of designing it.
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Alberta K-6 students will learn about financial literacy, computer science and sexual consent under a new draft curriculum that will pilot this fall.
Education Minister Adriana LaGrange unveiled the plan on Mar. 29, which will replace some programs of study that are more than 30 years old.
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“In the last election, we heard loud and clear from parents across Alberta that it was time for a renewed focus on essential knowledge and skills,” LaGrange said. That will include things like budgeting, computer coding and public speaking.
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