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K-12 education content standards in Michigan
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This page features the following information about who sets K-12 education content standards in Michigan public schools:
- The state entity with the authority to approve K-12 education content standards.
- Whether Michigan requires or recommends that local schools or districts follow the K-12 education content standards.
- The statutory or regulatory language in Michigan governing the development and application of K-12 education content standards.
Background
State education officials develop content standards in order to facilitate curriculum development for public schools. This section examines the role of content standards in public instruction and the different state approaches that either require or recommend their use in public schools.
What are content standards?
Content standards are educational learning and achievement goals that state education officials either require or recommend that local schools satisfy in K-12 instruction. Content standards are not curriculum but rather aim to guide the development of what state officials view as a robust K-12 curriculum.[1]
The development of K-12 education content standards in public schools varies across the 50 states. State boards of education, state education agency leaders, and local school districts, for example, may play a role in the development and approval of content standards.
Do states recommend or require schools to follow content standards?
State statutes or regulations may require or recommend the use of K-12 education content standards in public instruction.
Some states require local schools to align curriculum with content standards by establishing content standards as a minimum course of study. Such states may also require local schools or districts to adopt content standards as part of their curriculum, or they may require students to demonstrate mastery of content standards through state assessments.
Other states recommend that local schools or districts follow state content standards.
Who sets state K-12 education content standards in Michigan?
The following section provides information about the development and application of K-12 education content standards in Michigan as of 2022.
The table below identifies the state entity tasked with setting content standards, whether the content standards are recommendations or requirements for local schools, and the governing statute(s). The text of the governing statute(s) is provided below the table.
| Michigan K-12 education content standards | ||
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| Entity | Recommendations or requirements? | Statute or Regulation |
| State Board of Education | Recommendations | MI Comp L § 380.1278 (2022) |
| “ | In addition to the requirements for accreditation under section 1280 specified in that section, if the board of a school district wants all of the schools of the school district to be accredited under section 1280, the board shall provide to all pupils attending public school in the district a core academic curriculum in compliance with subsection (3) in each of the curricular areas specified in the state board recommended model core academic curriculum content standards developed under subsection (2). The state board model core academic curriculum content standards shall encompass academic and cognitive instruction only. For purposes of this section, the state board model core academic curriculum content standards shall not include attitudes, beliefs, or value systems that are not essential in the legal, economic, and social structure of our society and to the personal and social responsibility of citizens of our society.[2] | ” |
See also
- K-12 education content standards in the states
- Overview of trends in K-12 curricula development
- Use of the term critical race theory (CRT)
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Common Core State Standards Initiative, "What are educational standards?" accessed April 21, 2022
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
