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A copy of every US state’s K–6 academic standards. One page per state, one page per subject, the full text of each standard with its grade, the framework it belongs to, the year the state adopted it and a link to the document it came from.

It is free to use and there is nothing to sign up for. A single ad at the bottom of some pages pays for it.

The site is independently run and has no connection to the US Department of Education or any state education agency. We also run TV on a Rolling Cart, a free library of K–6 classroom videos tagged to the same national standards this site crosswalks to.

Academic standards are public documents published by state education agencies. We collect them from those agencies’ own publications, usually the adopted PDF, the administrative rule or the standards portal, and record which document each subject came from, the adoption date, and the date we last read it. Every state page shows that record and links to the document.

Plenty of states adopted a national framework instead of writing their own. For example, Delaware’s mathematics standards are the Common Core, word for word. In those cases the page says so and shows the national framework, because those are that state’s standards.

Standard text is reproduced as published. We do not rewrite, renumber, summarise or shorten a standard, and we do not merge one state’s wording into another’s.

We add two things. The first is a subject classification, so fifty different filing systems fit behind the same thirteen headings. The second is a crosswalk: which national standard, from the Common Core, NGSS, the National Core Arts Standards and others, each state standard matches. The crosswalk is our judgement rather than the state’s, and where nothing matches we say so instead of stretching one.

Standards get revised and documents move. If a standard here does not match what your state publishes now, tell us and include the state, the subject and the code. We will read the document again. For anything that matters, use the state’s own document; this site is a convenience and not a legal reference.