Sentences with phrase «draft of the academic standards»

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Dozens of states are drafting new academic standards for what students should know and be able to do.

Designed to raise student proficiencies so the United States can better compete in a global market, the standards were drafted in 2009 by a group of academics and assessment specialists at the request of the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers.

In the latest go - round of revisions of academic content standards in a state where the task is often rife with controversy, the board told writers not to delete Christmas and Rosh Hashana, as had been proposed in a draft.

The latest draft of proposed common academic standards offers more - detailed expectations of what students should know and be able to do by the end of high school in math and language arts, but also notes that some decisions about curricula should be left to individual states and schools.

State education officials will release drafts of new academic standards Wednesday — but will they be the best in the country?

If all goes as planned, the Indiana State Board of Education will consider drafts of new academic standards in April.

State education officials released drafts of new academic standards to the public late Wednesday night, kicking off a three - week period for parents and educators to offer feedback on the next set of expectations for Indiana schools.