It's hard to believe: people never talk curriculum at educational gatherings.

Hard to believe, because, from the debate over Common Core, you'd think educators would be up in arms about how bad the current curricula are, or else how good, or how to make them better or to get rid of them altogether.

Yet, in sixteen edcamps (teacher gatherings), we can't recall one session where the main discussion was of curriculum.

Plenty of conversations echo ivory-tower criticisms that 'tests take away students' creativity and teachers' innovative opportunities'. But no one points to specific parts of curriculum and asks how to send them to their grave.