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Content & professional K-12 standards in USA Education

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How has the content and professional standards movement in K-12 changed the way educators teach students in America?

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The value of using standards in lesson planning is discussed.

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As with every trend in education that has a cycle that comes, goes and may come back again, the standards movement has given a focus for districts, states and the nation. For schools and curriculum builders, it helped give a direction for what students need to know, and remove content from lesson plans that do not related to the standards and therefore the standardized tests.

The hope and notion is that those who create the tests for each grade and content area have some sort of big picture idea of what is the most important to cover in the short ...

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