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Utah State Board of Education will vote this week on new social studies standards

Social studies standards have not been updated in over a decade.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) An empty classroom at Bonneville Elementary School, on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020.

The Utah State Board of Education will vote Thursday, Dec. 1 on whether to approve new social studies standards for fifth and sixth graders. This is the first time these standards have been updated in over a decade.

The state’s core standards dictate what students in each grade level should learn. It’s up to individual school districts, charter schools and teachers to determine how those standards are taught and with what materials.

In 2019, the state Board of Education voted to revise the elementary social studies standards. A Standards Review Committee then met to make recommendations on how the standards should be changed, and it fell to the Writing Committee to draft those new guidelines.

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This article is published through the Utah News Collaborative, a partnership of news organizations in Utah that aim to inform readers across the state.