N.J., N.Y. Advance Efforts To Adopt Academic Standards
Despite declarations the momentum behind the national movement for academic standards had flagged, two of the nation's biggest states forged ahead last week and released standards designed to elevate student achievement.
The New York state board of regents gave conditional approval to standards for English-language arts, mathematics, science, and technology. And in New Jersey, Commissioner of Education Leo F. Klagholz unveiled standards outlining what students should know and be able to do in the arts, health and physical education, languages, literacy, mathematics, science, and social studies.
New York has long had curriculum standards, but they have been geared primarily toward students who aimed for a so-called regents' diploma and had to pass the more rigorous regents' exams to earn one. The proposed guidelines target all of the state's 2.7...
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