Indeed, Common Core and competency-based learning should be a natural fit, as the former creates learningmaps for students to master that can shift the emphasis from time to mastery of deeper learning.
In this rare, silk allegorical embroidery, Wisdom watches over four students viewing a large unframed map and points to a classical temple, signifying the importance of maps in higher learning.
These maps, which primarily adorned the world's churches and other places of power and learning, succeeded in returning mapping to the dark ages, getting much wrong and gleefully so.