Sorry, I need to correct my previous message.
The word "grammar" is used in the standards.
There is a page on which the writers explain
the problems with some educational terms,
including grammar. Hence, the word is used.
As for standards regarding grammar,
however, all I remember (and I was looking for
it), is something such as primary students will
write sentences that are largely correct.
Elementary students will write sentences that
are effectively? correct? (My Dean borrowed
my copy of the working draft, so I have to go
by memory here.)  In essence, the standards
will definitely NOT be prescriptive (the
Language Mavens). In regard to grammar,
there will be no standards, unless some of us
put pressure on the group. (Hence my original
question.)
 
EV
 
Regarding the national standards, Dennis
Newson wrote:
I hope the committee begins by making a
statement about what they mean and don't
mean by grammar. And I hope they've all read
Chapter 12,
The Language Mavens, in Steven Pinker's
brilliant: The Language Instinct
The New Science of Language and Mind
(1993).
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From what I have seen, he need not worry: the
word "grammar" does not appear in the
standards, nor do any grammatical terms or
rules. It seems that as far as the standards are
concerned, grammar does not exist.
 
Ed V.