The Iowa Department of Education has released the draft of the revised standards for teaching social studies to kids across state. The Department’s Stefanie Wager says a state writing team put together the new standards after several months of study.

 

Wager says the move to update the standards was driven by a couple of things.

 

The writing team now hands off its proposal to a review team which will make any final modifications after getting input from Iowans.

The Social Studies Standards Review Team will meet for the first time November 8th to being the  public review of the draft social studies standards.