The California Department of Education has issued a set of Quality Standards for Expanded Learning Programs that include giving youth opportunities “to play a meaningful role in program design ...

Forty-five states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core State Standards, and 36 states and the District of Columbia have schools with expanded-time schedules.

Another expanded learning standard – giving students opportunities to collaborate with each other – echoes a Common Core theme. At Bridge the Gap College Prep, an after-school program in Marin County, ...

This group expanded through the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers. In 2007, curriculum experts began to devise the new Common Core standards.