Developing Educational Standards

Updates Page (July 1996-June 1997 )


Developing Educational Standards is an annotated list of Internet sites with K-12 educational standards and curriculum frameworks documents, maintained by Charles Hill and the Putnam Valley Schools in New York. Your help with updates or corrections is greatly appreciated. This page was last updated on July 22, 1997.

Updates: | Current | Sep. 1995 - June 1996 | July 1996 - June 1997 | July 1997 - June 1998 | July 1998 - Dec 1999 |

June 27, 2023 Updates Information

• Updated Georgia information in the state, art, ELA, foreign language, health, math, occupational education, PE, science, and social studies pages.
• Updated Illinois information in the state, art, ELA, foreign language, health, math, PE, science, social studies, and technology pages.
• Updated ESL links on the foreign language, organizations, and centers pages.

June 23, 2023 Updates Information

• Updated Pennsylvania information in the state, math, and ELA pages.
• Updated Vermont information in the state, art, ELA, foreign language, health, math, occupational education, reasoning, science, social studies, and technology pages.
• Added a reference to the Nevada Standards, Curricula and Assessments Team on the state page.
• Updated the Nebraska link in technology. Added links for ELA, math, science, and social studies.

June 11, 2023 Updates Information

• Updated information about the Massachusetts history framework on the social studies, and Massachusetts pages.
• Updated the library standards listing on the Texas and library media pages.

May 14, 2023 Updates Information

• Updated a link to the 2 plus 2: The Home of Mathematically Correct on the Math and the Miscellaneous Resources pages.
• Updated American Association for the Advancement of Science information on the Organizations page and pages for science, math, and technology.
• Added a link to the 1996 AFT study of state standards on the Organizations page.
• Updated the Voluntary National Content Standards for Economic Education entries on the Organizations and the social studies pages.
• Updated link information for the Speech Communication Association on the Organizations and the ELA pages; changed the SCA's name to the National Communication Association.
• Added a link to the William G. Quirk Seminars page on the Math and the Miscellaneous Resources pages.
• Updated links to British Columbia IRPs on the Governmental Resources page and the arts, ELA, math, occ. ed., PE, science, social studies, and technology pages.
• Set links to the new Commission for the Establishment of Academic Content and Performance Standards on the California page and the pages for ELA, math, science, and social studies.
• Set a link to a position paper by the Association of California School Administrators on the California page.
• Updated links to state proficiency guides on the Indiana and the math, science, and social studies pages.
• Added links to the Maine learning results in the areas of arts, ELA, foreign language, health, math, occ. ed., PE, science, social studies, and technology.
• Added links to PASS documents on the Oklahoma and the arts, ELA, foreign language, math, PE, reasoning, science, social studies, and technology pages.
• Added guidelines documents to the library and technology pages and the Oregon page.
• Added or updated links to draft curriculum resource guides on the New York and the arts, math, science, and technology pages.
• Added frameworks links to the South Dakota and the arts, ELA, foreign language, health, math, science, and social studies pages.
• Updated the Texas TEKS information on the Texas page and the pages for the arts, ELA, foreign language, health, home economics, math, occ. ed., PE, science, social studies, and technology.
• Added information about library standards to the Texas page.
• Updated the Texas listing on the SED page.
• Added information literacy standards to the Washington and the library pages.

April 16, 2023 Update Information

• Updated the Massachusetts page and its links in English and social studies.
• Updated the Eisenhower National Clearninghouse listings on the Centers and Clearinghouses, math, science, Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Montana, North Dakota, and Pennsylvania pages. Added a listing to the library and social studies pages.
• Updated the New York City section of the New York page and listings on the arts, English, foreign language, math, occupational education, science, and social studies pages.
• Updated the British Columbia listing on the government resources page and on various subject area pages.
• Added entries for Alberta, Canada to the government resources page and to the English, math, and technology pages.
• Added an entry for the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada to the government resources page and to the science page.
• Updated the entry for the National Center on Educational Outcomes on the professional organizations and the other areas pages.
• Added a link to Achieve on the professional organizations page.

March 10, 2023 Update Information

• Added a link to the NASSP on the organizations page.
• Added a link to Phi Delta Kappa on the organizations page.
• Added links to the British Columbia learning outcomes and integrated resource packages on the government page and on pages for the arts, English/language arts, foreign language, math, occupational education, physical education, science, social studies, and technology.
• Questioned a listed link to NYCENet and various New York City documents from the New York and various subject area pages as the link appears dead. If anyone knows if the link is alive or dead or of good links to New York City frameworks documents, please let me know.
• Added a link to the Texas Center for Reading and Language Arts to the Texas and the English/language arts pages.
• Added a link to the Social Studies Center for Educator Development to the Texas and the social studies pages.
• Added a link to the Center for the Education and Study of diverse Populations and its standards and benchmarks information on the New Mexico page and on pages for English/language arts, foreign language, math, science, and social studies.

February 10, 2023 Update Information

• Created a new subject page called Other Areas for topics that do not fit into the subject pages already on the site.
• Updated the Artsedge links on the arts pages.
• Added a link to the National Health Education Standards to the health and the organizations pages (the latter is under the American Cancer Society listing).
• Added a link to the new PTA National Standards for Parent/Family Involvement Programs to the organizations page and the Other Areas page.
• Added a link to President Clinton's 1997 State of the Union Speech to the governmental resources page.
• Added links to the Louisiana standards for art, English/language arts, foreign language, math, science, and social studies on the state and subject area pages.
• Updated New York links in the area of English/language arts on the state and subject area pages. Added links to Lower Hudson Regional Information Center resources on the state and math, science, and technology pages.
• Added a link to the Texas Alternative Document Draft to the Texas and English/language arts pages.
• Updated Wisconsin links in the areas of art, English/language arts, family and consumer education, foreign language, health, math, occupational education, physical education, science, and social studies on the state and subject area pages.
• Updated the Wyoming DOE link on the state education department page (thanks to Mary G. Nallan for this info).

January 13, 2023 Update Information

• Updated the list of state education department home pages.
• Added the Foundation for Teaching Economics to the organizations and the social studies pages.
• Updated the International Technology Education Association listing on the organizations and technology pages.
• Added the National Arts Education Association to the organizations and the arts pages.
• Updated the NCTM listings and added a link to an online questionnaire on both the organizations and the math pages.
• Added the National Skills Standard Board to the governmental resources and the occupational education pages.
• Updated the National Center on Education and the Economy listing on the centers page.
• Updated links on the Alaska page.
• Updated links on the Arizona and the math and English/language arts pages.
• Updated the Rhode Island and the math, science, and technology pages.
• Updated links on the Washington page.

Decmeber 9, 1996 Update Information

• Added a link to the National Education Goals Panel on the Governmental Resources page.
• Updated the California page and subject area links to the state's Challenge Initiative standards for Language Arts, math, social studies, science, health, physical education, visual and performing arts, foreign language, service learning, and career preparation.
• Updated the Illinois page with links to the June 1996 preliminary drafts of the state standards documents for the arts, English/language arts, foreign language, health, math, physical education, science, and social studies.
• Added links to the draft "Information Literacy Standards" (by the American Association of School Librarians and the Association for Educational Communications and Technology) on the Organizations and the Library Media pages.
• Updated the Council for Basic Education listing on the Organizations page.
• Updated the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages links on the Organizations and the Foreign Language pages.
• Added a link to the journal "Education Policy Analysis" and a review of Diane Ravitch's book about standards on the Miscellaneous Resources page.

November 18, 2022 Update Information

• Updated links on the Ohio page.
• Updated the New Jersey page and its standards documents in the arts, English/language arts, foreign language, health, math, physical education, science, and social studies.
• Added a link on the New York page to a report from the state's education commissioner. Added links on the state page to pdf documents from SED related to the arts, English/language arts, foreign language, health, home economics, math, occupational education, physical education, science, social studies, and technology.
• Added a link to a press release from the governor's office to the Pennsylvania page.
• Updated documents from the Organization of American History on the social studies and the organizations pages.
• Added the National Council for History Education to the social studies and organizations pages.
• Updated information from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics on the math and the organizations pages.
• Added the Mathematical Association of America to the math and organizations pages.

October 21, 2023 Update Information

• Updated various URLs for the Maryland Learning Outcomes on the state and relevant subject area pages. (Thanks go to Agnes Tatarka, Sailor Data Aministrator, for this information).
• Added links to the Alaska Arts framework to the Alaska and Arts pages.
• Added links to the Arizona draft framework in the Arts to the Arizona and Arts pages.
• Added links to Oregon's Common Curriculum Goals to the Oregon page and relevant subject area pages.
• Added links to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills on the Texas page and relevant sujbect area pages.
• Added link to the Oregon Department of Education and the South Dakota Department of Education and Cultural Affairs on the State Education Department page.
• Added links to several new articles from McREL on the centers, clearinghouses, and labs page.

September 30, 2023 Update Information

• Updated links to CRESST on the centers, clearinghouses, and labs page.
• Added the US Department of Education's searchable ERIC Digests to the governmental resources page.
• Added links to Education Week (it went online in early September, along with Teacher Magazine) to the miscellaneous resources and social studies pages.
• Added links to the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges and its math standards to the organizations and math pages.
• Added a link to the Brookings Institution and a relevant article to the organizations page.
• Added a link to the Education Commission of the States and its document summaries to the organizations page.
• Updated the Education Excellence Network listing on the organizations page and added a link to the social studies page.
• Added the National Geographic Society and information about the geography standards to the organizations and social studies pages.
• Added the Discussion Draft of Wisconsin Academic Standards (released in late September) to the Wisconsin, the arts, ELA, foreign language, health, home economics, math, occupational education, PE, science, social studies, and technology pages.

September 9, 2023 Update Information

• Updated several URLs on the social studies and State Education Department pages.
• Added links to the Alaska content standards to the state page and to subject pages in the arts, English/language arts, foreign language, health, math, science, social studies, and technology.
• Updated the Colorado page with links to a document that tries to highlight special needs different students might have when trying to achieve certain standards; added a link on the library page to information literacy guidelines; added links to draft standards in the arts, foreign language, health, and social studies.
• Updated the Kansas page.
• Updated the Kentucky page.
• Added a Board of Regents policy statement to the New York page.
• Added links to several standards documents to the Pennsylvania page.
• Added links to a position paper and other documents about standards to the Wisconsin page.
• Added a link on the governmental resources page to the US DOE's page on "State Curriculum Frameworks and Content Standards." Because the documents on this page are somewhat out of date, I have not linked them to individual states or subject area pages (though I have put this information on the resources page).
• Updated links to ERIC on the miscellaneous resources page.

August 25, 2023 Update Information

• On July 22, an emergency situation arose involving my office within the Putnam Valley Central Schools. While the situation has now been largely resolved, it has occupied most of my time over the past month and kept me from doing bi-weekly updates on this site. I expect to have an update in place on or shortly after Labor Day and to continue regular bi-weekly updates thereafter. If any reader knows of any information that ought to be included in an update, I would greatly appreciate hearing about it. Please email me either at work (chill@putwest.boces.org) or at home (chill@mhv.net).

July 22, 2023 Update Information

• Added an announcement from the National Science Teachers Association about their October 17, 2023 Electronic Town Meeting on the National Science Education Standards to the science page.
• Updated the Maine, science, and math pages with a link to the state's Curriculum Framework for Mathematics and Science.
• Updated the Michigan page and several subject area pages with information about the legislative revision of the school code that removed the requirement that districts adopt the state's core curriculum standards.
• Updated the New York State frameworks links in the arts; career development and occupational studies; English language arts; health, physical education, and home economics; languages other than English; and math, science, and technology (put online by OCM BOCES) on the state and subject area pages.
• Added an English/language arts framework to the Rhode Island and the ELA pages.
• Added a new category for The Press to the miscellaneous resources page and put in links to coverage of standards from US News and World Report.
• Added to the miscellaneous resources page, under the heading of Opposition, the locations of three sites (the Arizona Parents for Traditional Education, the Eagle Forum, and SchoolHouse Talk) that generally oppose the development of state or national standards.
• Updated several out-of-date links to articles on the miscellaneous resources page (thanks to help from John Norton of MiddleWeb).
• Added the Education Leaders Council and links to several of its public statements about standards to the organizations page.
• Added links to articles from the Journal of Technology Education to the ITEA portion of the organizations page and to the technology page.
• Added links to some excellent articles about standards as they apply to middle school teaching from MiddleWeb to the organizations page.
• Added a link to The Regional Alliance Hub for Mathematics and Science Education Reform (aka The Hub) and an article about standards by Anne C. Lewis to the organizations page.

July 12, 2023 Note: NYNEX, the phone company, had an equipment failure which took us and a lot of others down on July 11 at about 4:30 PM (with intermittent failures earlier in the day, as well). If you are reading this, it means they have fixed the problem.

July 8, 2023 Update Information

• We were hit by lightning again - this time on Wednesday, July 3, at about 5:30 in the afternoon. And, once again, no one was hurt. But we lost some important electronic components to our system and the problem was not fixed until today. If you tried to get in but couldn't - that's the reason.
• Added a link to the "Standards for Speaking, Listening and Media Literacy" from the Speech Communication Association to the organizations, English/language arts, and library media pages.

July 1, 2023 Update Information

• Added draft standards in foreign language, science, and technology to the Arizona page and the relevant subject pages.
• Updated the Arkansas page URLs to reflect a move of the DOE site.
• Added several documents about standards to the Colorado page.
• Revised the Delaware page (and the pages for English/language arts, math, science, and social studies) with links to the June release of the New Directions Content Standards on the Delaware Education Network's site. Also updated the URL for the Curriculum Consumers Information Service.
• Added the Sunshine State Standards (approved on May 29) to the Florida page as well as to pages in the arts, English/language arts, foreign language, health, math, physical education, science, and social studies.
• Noted that the recently approved New Jersey frameworks are not currently on line.
• Added a link on the Utah page to the Office of Education's links to standards and added an entry for physical education.
• Removed out-of-date links to the US Department of Education gopher.
• Added a link on each state page to our page of State Education Departments.
• Added a link to the American Music Conference on the professional organizations and the arts pages.
• Added documents from Papua New Guinea to the governmental organizations, health, physical education, and technology pages.