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Setting the Stage >
Student Standards > Resources
English/Language Arts
National Council of Teachers of English
(NCTE)
International Reading Association
(IRA)
The standards, developed
by both NCTE and IRA
Math
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
(NCTM)
The standards
Science
National Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS)
An online version of Benchmarks for Science Literacy (1993)
provides specific learning goals for the end of grades 2, 5, 8, and
12 and features hypertext links to cognitive research and bibliographic
references. The book can be purchased at the same site .http://www.project2061.org//tools/index.html
An online version of Science for All Americans defines what
high school graduates should know and be able to do. The book can
be purchased at the same site .http://www.project2061.org//tools/index.html
Standards developed by
the National Committee on Science
An online version of the addendum to the standards, Inquiry and
the National Science Education Standards: A Guide for Teaching and
Learning (2000) can be found at http://www.nap.edu/books/0309064767/html/
Social Studies
National Council for the Social Studies
(NCSS)
The standards
Technology
International Society for Technology
in Education (ISTE)
National Educational Technology Standards-Connecting Curriculum
and Technology
http://cnets.iste.org/pdf/nets_brochure.pdf
Overview - Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (MCREL) provides
a compendium of content standards, activities related to them as well
as a wide variety of resources which explore the standards movement.
http://www.mcrel.org
National Standards in American Education, Ravitch, Diane, The Brookings
Institution: Washington DC, 1995 (202-797-6252), provides an overview
of the history and issues connected to establishing standards in all the
academic disciplines.
At the direction of the Indiana legislature the Department of Education
has developed or is in the process of developing Academic Standards for
the areas of Fine Arts, Health, Physical Education, Science, Social Studies,
Foreign Language, English Language Arts, and Mathematics.
The
Indiana Department of Education
The
Academic Standards
Best Practice, New Standards for Teaching and Learning in America's
Schools, Zemelman, Daniels, Hyde, Heinemann, 1998, is an excellent
resource which examines best practice in reading, writing, mathematics,
science, social studies, and fine arts.
http://www.heinemann.com
Data Analysis for Comprehensive Schoolwide Improvement, Bernhardt, Victoria L., Eye on Education, 1998, (914- 833-0551), Berhhardt summarizes in her Preface, " In this book I want to show why data makes the difference in quality school improvement what data make the difference how gathered, analyzed, and properly used data make a difference in meeting the needs of every student in the school" (p.xiii).