PREKINDERGARTEN GRADE 12SOCIAL STUDIES-A .pptVIP

What is a “core curriculum”? In 1996, the New York State Board of Regents adopted learning standards for all content (subject) areas. Since then, the New York State Education Department (SED) has issued a series of core curricula, which provide an additional level of specificity to these learning standards. The core curricula: Contain the State’s expectations of what students must know and be able to do in relation to the content areas. Present key ideas (broad, unifying, general statements of what students need to know) and performance indicators (statements of what students shoul