Common standards for American schoolchildren’s education appear to be on the horizon. As reported by The Washington Post on May 31, 46 states and three U.S. territories are collaborating to create a set of common reading and math standards for K-12 students.
Led by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers, the initiative is intended to help students across the nation acquire a universal set of skills that will enable them to compete in the global market.
What This Means
The details of the initiative will be in the works in the coming months, though developing common education standards does increase opportunity on a number of fronts:
- Teachers and districts could develop and share curriculum and resources across state lines
- Students could transfer from one state to another and acclimate more easily into the new district’s educational program
- Community members could bring ideas from other regions and adopt or adapt them in their own district
For Haiku LMS users this is great news! A common set of standards has a number of benefits, including:
- Enabling the Haiku team to easily, effectively tag content, which would potentially make searches more relevant for Haiku teachers.
- Making one of Haiku’s upcoming features, Benchmarks, even more valuable because tagged benchmarks would be relevant to everyone across the U.S.
- Lowering the resources involved in tagging and organizing content, which means less work for the Haiku team, less work for content creators, and cost savings across the industry.
