CRDG began as a research center that sought to improve educational practice by creating discipline-based curricula that would be used as the basis of a liberal education for all students. This foundational philosophy was based on the ideas of Arthur…
New Physics Curriculum in Development
The Practices in Physics & Technology (PP&T) project brings together educators, education researchers, and physics professors to create new curriculum materials meant to teach physics as a first high school science course before students take chemistry and biology. Work this…
A History of Hawai‘i Revised and Updated
CRDG is excited to be working on the third edition of A History of Hawai‘i, the most widely used text for high school courses on the history of Hawai‘i’ since the first edition was published in 1989. The text, which…
Third Curriculum in the East Asia Series
The newest project in the series of curricula on East Asia will be an activity-driven modular program on the history of North and South Korea since 1945. In addition to providing a comprehensive program on Korea, topics will be “tagged”…
Updated Marine Science Text
A new edition of CRDG’s acclaimed marine science text The Fluid Earth is in development. The Fluid Earth is part of a marine science program that draws on biology, physics, chemistry, meteorology, geology, cartography, engineering, and ecology and presents all…