Content Standards
Content standards were designed to encourage the highest achievement of every student, by defining the knowledge, concepts, and skills that students should acquire at each grade level.The content standards adopted by the California State Board of Education are listed below: Printed publications can be purchased from CDE Press Educational Resources Catalog.
Current Standards
- English-Language Arts
- Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, Adopted August 2010 (PDF; 2MB) (Modified March 2013 Publication Version)
- Word version of Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts (DOC; 3MB)
- Mathematics
- Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Adopted August 2010 and Modified January 2013 (PDF; 3MB) (April 2014 Electronic Version)
The April 2014 Electronic Version (PDF) of the standards includes the correction of printing errors listed on the Errata Sheet (DOC). Please note that these corrections may be found in the Errata Sheet of the printed standards publication (copyright 2013).
- California Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Adopted August 2010 and Modified January 2013 (DOC; 6MB) (April 2014 Version)
- Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Adopted August 2010 and Modified January 2013 (PDF; 3MB) (April 2014 Electronic Version)
- English Language Development 2012
- Career Technical Education (Updated January 2013 Prepublication Version)
- Health Education Content Standards March 2008 (PDF; 1MB)
- History-Social Science, Adopted October 1998 (PDF)
- Model School Library Standards, Adopted September 2010 (PDF; 1MB)
- Physical Education Model Content Standards, Adopted Jan-2005 (PDF; 2MB)
- Science Adopted, September 2013
- Visual and Performing Arts, Adopted January 2001 (PDF; 2MB)
- Word version of Visual and Performing Arts Content Standards (DOC)
- For ease of use and accessibility, the document is also available in parts:
- World Language, Adopted January 2009 (PDF; 4MB)
Previous Content Standards
- English Language Arts, Adopted December 1997 (PDF)
- Mathematics, Adopted December 1997 (PDF)
- English Language Development, English Version (PDF)
- Science, Adopted October 1998 (PDF)
- Career Technical Education, Adopted May 2005 (PDF; 4MB)
- Word version of Career Technical Education (DOC; 1MB)
Questions: State Board of Education | 916-319-0827
Last Reviewed: Friday, December 11, 2015