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Steering Committee Examines Proven Standards in Other States

The committee tasked with creating Oklahoma's new academic standards following the repeal of Common Core met for the second time on Monday.

As KOSU's Emily Wendler reports, they are trying to learn as much as they can from other's trials and tribulations before embarking on their own journey.

The academic standards steering committee—in charge of creating Oklahoma's new educational requirements for kindergarten through 12th grade—got guidance from three experts who have excelled in creating math and English programs in their own states.

These experts encouraged the committee to use standards that have already been proven to work -- but to tweak them to fit Oklahoma's needs.

State Superintendent- Joy Hofmeister- acknowledged that her group has a lot of work to do.

“I saw presentations that gave me hope as they described their process. They did accomplish this-- particularly in Minnesota-- in a much shorter amount of time than we are attempting to write standards.”

The committee plans to have the standards finished by the end of this year.

By law, the new standards have to be approved by the 2016 legislature.

The committee meets again today at 9 a.m. at the Oklahoma Regents for Higher Education. All of these meetings are open to the public.

Emily Wendler was KOSU's education reporter from 2015 to 2019.
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