|Common Core Standards||Seeking to bring diverse state curricula into alignment with each other, a majority of states have now adopted the standards and are in process of implementing them. Standards were authored by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices, Council of Chief State School Officers (2010)|
Department of Education and the
Board of Education websites contains information about California standards.
The second link is to California's position and progress on implementing the
Common Core Standards.
|U.S. Department of Education||Here's the official place to find trends in
the nation regarding standards. You'll find a brief report on each
state's progress in establishing standards with links to state Web sites
that have standards posted.
Research for Education and Learning (McRel) standards database and
their career standards provides many links.
|Robert J. Marzano's article, "Eight Questions You Should Ask Before Implementing Standards-Based Education at the Local Level" is well worth the read.||It's 1996 copyright may throw you off, but the questions are still valid.|
Achieve’s goal is to help every state close the expectations
gap so that all students graduate ready for success. The cornerstone of
Achieve’s work on standards is benchmarking, or clearly defining what
students should know and be able to do at different grade levels. Since
2005, the focus of our work has been to ensure that all students are ready
for college or work when they graduate. The
American Diploma Project Network
benchmarks define the needed knowledge and skills for high school students.
|National Board of Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS)||Check their
core propositions on teacher practices.
|The Association of California School Administrators||Their
paper on academic standards presents one point of view.
|National technology standards||From the International Society for
Technology in Education are a model of form and substance for
students, teachers, and administrators.
|National Education Goals Panel||
This site is an on-line and up-to-date source for education
data for individual state and the nation regarding the National Education
Goals. The Data Center allows you to view data through tables and graphs,
compare states, compare your state to other states and the nation, and to
find out who the highest performing states in the nation are on particular
|The Center for Education Reform,||This nonprofit, non-partisan advocacy group has a good
collection of WWW resources and organizations related to standards.
|National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST)||Check their research
on important topics related to K-12 educational testing.
|Education World||Here are the objectives of the voluntary National Education Standards for the major subject
areas. The site provides access to the state standards by subject as well.
|Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education||This organization
has announced standards
to help ensure that candidates will be engaged in a rigorous process to prepare them for a career
in teaching. The link is to their blog. Three organizations have now
joined and a new website enlarged Council will be up in the "fall of 2013."
|California Learning Resource Network (CLRN)||
CLRN objectives: include
California On-line Resources
for Education (SCORE)
|SCORE includes four clearinghouses
focused on linking Internet resources to state standards in
mathematics, science, history/social science, and language arts.
Each database has sample lesson plans, links to content sites for
students, as well as other best practice examples in implementing
standards-based curriculum in the classroom.
|MarcoPolo||This site standards-based content resource for the K-12 teacher and
classroom. Online resources include panel-reviewed links to top
sites in many disciplines and professionally developed lesson plans
and classroom activities.
|Copyright 1998-2013 Louise Wright Robertson||
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