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Senate Education Committee reviews learning expectations, SmartCore and digital-learning findings
Summary
Presenters from the Bureau of Legislative Research summarized state academic standards, the SmartCore diploma pathway, and recent findings on AP, concurrent credit and digital learning, noting disparities in remote learning outcomes and pointing to follow-up data requests from legislators.
Julie Holt of the Bureau of Legislative Research opened the committee’s review of learning expectations by summarizing where Arkansas stands in defining what students should know, noting the adequacy study’s focus on standards and course offerings. "This is a tool for teachers, to use, but also parents could get on the site and see what their students are supposed to be taught each year," Holt said.
Holt described three sources of state guidance: the statute codifying the accountability system, DESE accreditation rules and the committee’s own adequacy definition, and pointed to a discrepancy in older language that still says a 38-course list must be "taught" even…
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