About Standards


California Standards	The California Department of Education and the State Board of Education websites contains information about California 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.
The Mid-continent 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.
The best compilation of information about the standards movement is not a government or university website, but a little page tucked away in the rolling hills of New York state.	The Putnam Valley School District and webmaster Charles Hill have built a wonderful resource for anyone interested in standards and curriculum frameworks. This well-indexed site can be searched by subject area, by state, and by national agency or organization.
Achieve	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 five core propositions on teacher practices.
International Center for Educational Accountability	Here's a checklist to help you decide whether your classroom and school are teaching and meeting standards.
The Association of California School Administrators	Their position 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 goal indicators.
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.
National Council for 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.
California Instructional Technology Clearinghouse (CITC)	CITC has a large online database abstracting evaluated software, videos, and other instructional media materials linked to the state's curriculum framework.
Schools of 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.
Michigan Teacher Network	This site supports Michigan educators in the successful use of technology by providing easy access to information and materials that have been evaluated for quality, relevance, and effectiveness. It includes and updates information about Web sites related to standards and describes thousands of high quality resources that can be effectively used with students in the classroom, for professional development, or for educational planning and problem solving.

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Site last modified & updated June 03, 2007