Sunday, December 27, 2009
Officials Consider Education Standards
KENTUCKY....
To ensure the content taught to Kentucky students in preschool through 12th grade is consistent with that taught in as many as 47 other states and to line up with requirements of Senate Bill 1, the sweeping education update passed by the General Assembly last winter, Kentucky education officials will, early next year, consider adopting new "common core content standards" for math and English language arts. The new content standards would stress fewer and clearer topics, but with greater depth of understanding, although the state would not start testing students on the new standards until the 2011-12 school year. Adoption of the standards would require action by the state Board of Education, the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education and the Kentucky Education Professional Standards Board, which could come at a meeting scheduled for Februrary 9th.
To ensure the content taught to Kentucky students in preschool through 12th grade is consistent with that taught in as many as 47 other states and to line up with requirements of Senate Bill 1, the sweeping education update passed by the General Assembly last winter, Kentucky education officials will, early next year, consider adopting new "common core content standards" for math and English language arts. The new content standards would stress fewer and clearer topics, but with greater depth of understanding, although the state would not start testing students on the new standards until the 2011-12 school year. Adoption of the standards would require action by the state Board of Education, the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education and the Kentucky Education Professional Standards Board, which could come at a meeting scheduled for Februrary 9th.
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