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In July 2010, the Board also adopted the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts, which will replace the Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening standards adopted in 1999. The regulations providing for these new academic content standards took effect upon their publication in the October 16, 2010 edition of the Pennsylvania Bulletin.
Alabama requires the Stanford Achievement Test Series; and in Texas, the Texas Higher Education Assessment. That state has discontinued its usage of the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills . Since the 2007–08 school year, Kentucky has required that all students at public high schools take the ACT in their junior year.
The National Association for Schools of Art and Design has stringent criteria for accrediting schools. For example, the NASAD requires that schools clearly publish their tuition rates and course descriptions. [1] In addition, board members assess the schools' art curricula and promote new standards to advance art education.
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 37.1 (1913): 76-82. online; Tully, Alan. "Literacy levels and educational development in rural Pennsylvania, 1729-1775." Pennsylvania History (1972) 39: 301-12. online; Walls, Nina de Angeli. Art, Industry, and Women’s Education in Philadelphia (2001) Wickersham, James Pyle.
Alaska opted out of adopting the Standards, as said in How the Alaska English/Language Arts and Mathematics Standards Differ from the Common Core State Standards, published by the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development (EED) "Alaska did not choose to adopt the CCSS; it was important to Alaskan educators to have the opportunity to adjust portions of the standards based on the ...
CASA utilizes a 21st-century, hybrid model of teaching and learning. The curriculum is designed to meet all of the Pennsylvania Core State Standards. In 2013, the school received charter status and converted to an intensive, all-day academic and arts high school. CASA Charter School was approved in May 2013 for five years. [3]
Similar to a college experience, students took various classes associated with a "major" in one of five art areas: creative writing, dance, music, theater, or visual arts. [5] [6] In addition to these classes, students selected an elective class in an art area other than their primary. Collaboration and multifaceted projects were encouraged and ...
The NEA has initiated a number of other arts education partnerships and initiatives, which include: The Arts Education Partnership (AEP) [18] AEP convenes forums to discuss topics in arts education, publishes research materials supporting the role of arts education in schools, and is a clearinghouse for arts education resource materials.