What Do They Know and When Did They Know It?
Sarah Butrymowicz at the Hechinger Report notes:
From who the president is to how to tell time, what you’re expected to learn in school each year depends on where you live in the U.S.
South Dakota’s second-graders are supposed to learn how to tell time to the minute. In Alaska, students might be forgiven for being late – they aren’t required to learn how to tell time to the minute until fifth grade.
Be sure to check out the very nifty interactive academic standards map, where you’ll find that in Maine kids aren’t expected to know who the president is until the eighth grade. Even that, though, hasn’t put me on the common standards band wagon.
