State Standards & Journalism Education

Col­orado has adopted the Com­mon Core Stan­dards for Eng­lish Lan­guage Arts. We will have much more here as the year pro­gresses, focus­ing on how school media expe­ri­ence and jour­nal­ism instruc­tion can help schools and dis­tricts reach the stan­dards. But to get started, go here to famil­iar­ize your­self with what the Com­mon Core Stan­dards look like.

A CHSPA com­mit­tee has been work­ing on doc­u­ments demon­strat­ing how jour­nal­ism and media edu­ca­tion can be the best way to sup­port the Col­orado ELA Core Com­mon Core stan­dards. Check out our ver­sion of how 9th Grade Eng­lish, with an empha­sis on jour­nal­ism, media lit­er­acy and real world pub­lish­ing, matches with the ELA stan­dards.

You might also find a CHSPA doc­u­ment, called Jour­nal­ism is the New English, quite inter­est­ing. It addresses all 22 skills Col­orado high school grad­u­ates are to have (to be ready for col­lege or the workplace.