Standards
What's New?
By state
By subject area
US Government
Other nations
Centers ... labs
Newspapers and magazines
State-focused groups
Other organizations
Other State education
departments Awards
for DES Putnam
Valley Central Schools Wappingers
Central Schools 1999 National Education
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- All states and schools will have
challenging and clear standards of achievement and accountability
for all children, and effective strategies for reaching those
standards.
- President's
& Secretary's Priorities, January 2000; quoted on the US Department of Education's
web site
Good teachers have standards in mind when they set their lessons
up, where the idea of a "standard" represents a specific
idea of what the teacher expects a student to recall, replicate,
manipulate, understand, or demonstrate at some point down the
road - and of how the teacher will know how close a student has
come to meeting that standard. Standards, in other words, are
conceptually nothing new - but they did receive a new emphasis
over the last decade, through various state initiatives and through
the passage of the Goals
2000: Educate America Act. The growth of the Internet has
given us the chance to index the sources of information about
standards in one place and place that information at anyone's
electronic fingertips. We have established this page as a repository
for as much information about educational standards and curriculum
frameworks from all sources (national, state, local, and other)
as can be found on the Internet. If you know of a site that is
not listed here, please send that information to Charles
Hill.
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