About Legend Standards
Teachers should not have to dig through PDFs and dead state-department links to find a learning standard. We built this site so the canonical version of every U.S. K-12 standard is one click away, with the official source linked on every page.
- Free for any teacher
- No account required
- Refreshed when states change frameworks
Standards are the top of the stack for assessment. A rubric translates a standard into something gradable. A comment translates a rubric into something a student can act on. When the standard is unclear, the rubric drifts and the feedback drifts with it.
So we made the standards easier to find, and easier to hand to families.
Every U.S. state, the District of Columbia, and the five inhabited territories, organized by subject and grade. Each entry links back to the official state document.
Plain-English explainers for the major frameworks (Common Core, NGSS, WIDA, ISTE, CASEL, UDL, C3) plus a short library of guides for teachers and school leaders.
No account required and free for any teacher to use. We refresh the content when a state changes its frameworks or assessments.
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Cite the official source on every page.
You should always be able to verify what you read against the state document the standard came from. We link the publisher on every framework and state page.
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Plain English first, then the original.
We translate the codes and the technical phrasing into language a parent can read in two minutes. The official text is right there underneath.
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Standards only. Curriculum stays local.
We tell teachers what their state has adopted and what each framework actually says. We do not pick textbooks or set pacing for any classroom.
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Refresh when the source changes, not on a calendar.
Frameworks turn over on multi-year cycles. We re-ingest a state when its department of education updates its document, not on a schedule that drifts away from reality.
Legend is the tool teachers use to turn student work into rubric-aligned feedback. Standards sit at the top of that workflow.
A teacher who picks the right standard for a unit can build a rubric that maps to it and draft feedback that uses the same language. Grades and family reports follow from the same hierarchy.
This reference stays free because it should be. Legend pays for the work; teachers pay nothing.
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team@legend.org