Academic Standards

Dataset last updated June 18, 2026.

Overview

The Academic Standards dataset represents the official expectations for student learning across academic subjects and jurisdictions.


Source	Common Good Learning Tools ↗‘s CASE data ↗ for all 50 U.S. states
Supported grades	K-12
Includes	Math Academic Standards English Language Arts (ELA) Academic Standards Social Studies Academic Standards Science Academic Standards Other Standards (i.e., WIDA English Language Development Standards for English language learners)

Use cases

Use case	Examples
Compare standards across states	Populate a standards menu across all 50 states Compare how the same concept is framed or taught in different jurisdictions
Align instructional content to official learning goals	Use standards as context to create AI-generated lesson plans Integrate standards data with your CMS for easy content tagging
Power richer analytics	Aggregate performance or coverage data by standard across all the states you serve Reduce maintenance burden on internal standards infrastructure
Query standards without state-specific naming quirks	Query by jurisdiction, subject, and grade without learning each state’s domain or cluster labels Traverse standards frameworks → standards groups → individual academic standards with normalized structure

Entities and relationships

The data represents standards frameworks, standards groups, and individual standards as a tree with the following entities and relationships:


Data model
Entities	`StandardsFramework` Root node for a jurisdiction’s standards (e.g. New York State Mathematics Learning Standards) `StandardsFrameworkItem` (child node to `StandardsFramework`) Top-level grouping like a Domain or Cluster (e.g. Operations and Algebraic Thinking or Number & Operations—Fractions) Standard within a domain or cluster (e.g. 3.NF.A.1)
Relationships	`StandardsFramework` → `hasChild` → `StandardsFrameworkItem` (e.g. New York Math framework → its top-level domains) `StandardsFrameworkItem` → `hasChild` → `StandardsFrameworkItem` (e.g. domain → cluster, or cluster → standard)

Usage details


Requires files from other datasets	None
References files from other datasets	None
REST API endpoints	Standards Frameworks Academic Standards

Dataset release history

Date	Changed
June 18, 2026	Standards fixes for Montana Social Studies, New York Math, and Indiana Science; documented WIDA English Language Development Standards.
October 30, 2025	Added Washington, D.C. academic standards.
September 23, 2025	First release from CASE Network 2 ↗ for all 50 U.S. states.

Roadmap

We incorporated Academic Standards from CASE Network2 into Knowledge Graph in May 2025. Since then, some standards may have evolved or been updated by state agencies. We will begin adding those updates into Knowledge Graph in May 2026.

To confirm the exact version of a standard you’re working with in Knowledge Graph, check its dateModified field which contains the lastChangeDateTime from CASE. Updates are on the way:

Updates across all subjects and states will begin in May 2026.
A process for ongoing updates will also be added to keep data up to date.