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The provincial government is planning a comprehensive curriculum review and revamp “unlike any seen in Alberta,” Education Minister David Eggen says.

Every subject area in the K-12 curriculum will be reviewed and rewritten, Eggen said, promising more details Wednesday. On Tuesday, Eggen’s press secretary said the timeline for the project is six years.

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“We have some curricula that are almost 30 years old. That’s the art curriculum, as it happens. There’s a whole range, a constellation of curriculum that needs updating. It is very exciting,” he said.

The previous “stop, start, stop, start” approach of revisiting what Alberta students are expected to learn in each grade will also end, giving way to a new, ongoing process, Eggen said.

Some expectations of students will now stretch across traditional subject areas like math, science or language arts, he said.

“It’s going to be a big deal.”