Education Week

Iowa Moves on Content Standards for Core Subjects

Iowa educators have long boasted of their local control over what is taught in schools, even as the state has been chided by education reform advocates as the lone holdout on adopting state content ...
KCCI Des Moines

Iowa Board of Education to consider revising K-12 science education standards

TIS THE SEASON. TODD. THANK YOU. NEW AT FOUR IOWA SCHOOLS. COULD SOON HAVE NEW STANDARDS FOR THEIR K THROUGH 12 SCIENCE CLASSES. THE REVISED STANDARDS GO BEFORE THE IOWA BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR THE ...
The Gazette

State Board of Education adopts education standards for Iowa students

The State Board of Education unanimously approved the adoption of Common Core State Standards today, paving way for the development of common expectations among Iowa's school districts. The standards ...
Globe Gazette

Northwood-Kensett secondary follows elementary’s lead in new grading system

The 2018-19 school year will mark the first in an extended rollout for Northwood-Kensett High School’s new standards-based grading system. It is a year after Northwood-Kensett Elementary School made ...