EDT 265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Next Generation Science Standards, Common Core State Standards Initiative
15 Mar 2017
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Clear, uniform set of guidelines that specify academic skills students are expected to know at each grade level. List of topics to be covered and how they should be covered. Countries like finland and singapore have national curriculum. In us, no national curriculum, we have 42 states that use common core curriculum. 1965: establishment of national curriculum in the us was banned. Before 1990: talk of national curriculum was only about other countries. Set of academic standards for the fields of math and language arts. Before common core: over 1000 sets of different standards existed in the. Based on rigorous content and application of knowledge. Attempting to prepare students for the real world. Not really curriculum, just goals to hit. Districts still have the autonomy to reach the standards: they create the curriculum. Dutch ministry of education set a general national curriculum. Suggests time and target their students should be at.
