To help students achieve at high levels, local school officials and teachers with the full support and cooperation of families, businesses, and community partners are encouraged to take these standards and design the specific curricular and instructional strategies that best deliver the content to their students. Standards are an enduring commitment, not a passing fancy. Every initiative in public education, especially one so bold as establishing high standards, has its skeptics. We intend to prove the skeptics wrong, and we intend to do that by completely aligning state efforts to these standards, including the statewide testing program, curriculum frameworks, instructional materials, professional development, preservice education, and compliance review. We will see a generation of educators who think of standards not as a new layer but as the foundation itself.
Standards are our commitment to excellence.
These standards answer the question. They are comprehensive and specific. They represent our commitment to excellence.