Learning Standards

How state boards can develop, adopt, and update the academic content standards that define what students are expected to know, understand, and be able to do and how state boards can align all facets of the education system with them.

NASBE Experts

Abigail Potts
Director of Strategic Initiatives and Planning

Leading a Standards-Based System: Aligning Policy to Standards

In a standards-based system, learning standards cannot be adopted or implemented in isolation. They must be the hub of all other education system components, permeating all other system functions and serving as the lens through which state board members view all policy design and development.