CAROL’S SUMMARY:
Our nation is on the verge of a transformational new movement to define educational standards for all grade levels through high school. As the article below states, 46 states are now in agreement that we need to adopt national curriculum standards to help make our country’s workforce more globally competitive. These states are no longer content to watch ill-prepared students get by in school by passing tests that fail to meet national educational expectations. The outcoming national standards hope to balance the discrepancy between what students score on state versus national tests, and to narrow the widening achievement gap between the United States and the world.
LifeBound offers programs that can help smooth the transition for students all the way from elementary school through high school. Even more importantly, LifeBound works to supplement the traditional educational system with critical life skills and strengths-based materials. Along with the new educational standards due to be released in July, LifeBound will help prepare the next generation of students with the persistence, self-awareness and confidence needed to succeed in our global economy.
ARTICLE
By Maria Glod
Washington Post
Forty-six states and the District of Columbia today will announce an effort to craft a single vision for what children should learn each year from kindergarten through high school graduation, an unprecedented step toward a uniform definition of success in American schools.
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