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Content Knowledge: A Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for K12 Education
John S. Kendall and Robert J.Marzano are the authors of this site which provides background and history to the development of the national standards along with links to the standards themselves. http://www.mcrel.org/standards-benchmarks/

Developing Educational Standards
Annotated list of Internet sites with K-12 educational standards and curriculum frameworks documents. Site includes links to the standards documents along with links to curricula utilizing the standards in various geographic locations. http://edStandards.org/Standards.html

 
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
Independent organization working to develop professional standards for teachers. Site currently offers a policy statement and five propositions that form the rationale for the creation of such standards, a desciption of the process used for standards development, and summaries of the standards already prepared. http://www.nbpts.org/

 

Missouri Standards

 

Missouri Department of Elementary & Secondary Education Main DESE WebPage that contains information about school law, current school legislation, Missouri schools with WebPages, teacher certification, school finance any many sites.

Common Core Academic Standards  All curriculum you create needs to be aligned to the common core standards.

Show-me Standards   Listing and examples of the content Missouri Show-me Standards, examples of assessements, etc.

Subject Area Standards
  
American Association for the Advancement of Science's Project 2061
"K-12 educational reform to improve science and technology literacy for all citizens". Information about the development of "Science for All Americans" (1989), "Benchmarks for Science Literacy" (1994), supplementary materials and future projects is presented at this site. A link to order these materials is provided to Oxford University Press. http://www.aaas.org/

Art

Economics

Foreign Language

Geography

ISTE Recommended Foundations in Technology for All Teachers
Computer technology standards for all teachers which were developed by the International Society for Technology Education.

Music

National Council for the Social Studies
Links to an abbreviated version of its Curriculum Standards for Social Studies and Teacher Education Standards. The latter is a lengthy presentation of what the NCSS believes individuals should know and be able to do. http://www.ncss.org/

National Council of Teachers of English
The National Council of Teachers of English has ordering information for the English Language Arts Standards and several supplementary books, a short summary of the standards, and several relevant news articles. Its site also shows a link to guidelines for the preparation of English teachers but the link was not active as of December 1, 1997.http://www.ncte.org/

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The NCTM home page itself contains links to various aricles and op-ed style pieces about standards that have appeared in NCTM journals. http://www.nctm.org/
  
National Science Teachers Association
The National Science Teachers Association home page has information about various activities related to the development of science standards and frameworks. Its Scope, Sequence & Coordination Project, hosted by Microsoft's Global Schoolhouse, has an extremely comprehensive curriculum-focused site, billed as containing over 2000 pages of high school science teaching resources. The site has extensive sets of lessons and lesson materials for biology, chemistry, earth and space science, and physics - all tied to the National Science Education Standards (NSES) and the NSTA's Scope, Sequence, and Coordination subject areas. Standards. http://www.nsta.org/

Physical Education

U.S. History Standards
The National Center for History in the Schools site is at UCLA.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/nchs/standards.html

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