Standards

Each year's ATEEC Fellows Institute emphasizes strategies for teaching within the context of students' lives. Fellows who teach in secondary education settings remind their two-year college colleagues and the Fellows Institute staff of educators' important, time-intensive responsibility for students' achievement of academic standards. The two-year college teachers have become connected to the impact of the K-12 standards movement as affected senior high students enter their science, math, and environmental technology classes.

The era of standards and benchmarks began in a handful of states before the No Child Left Behind legislation of 2000, which now impacts all U.S. school districts. An Institute goal is to stimulate teachers' conversation of how to integrate strategies of problem-based learning while continuing to prepare their students to achieve content standards. 

The links on this page are resources on the topics of standards and school reform.

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General

Developing Educational Standards, by Wappingers Central School District, NY

• Annotated list of Internet sites with K-12 educational standards and curriculum frameworks documents. An excellent resource.

MERLOT Teaching and Technology Portal

• MERLOT's vision is to be a premiere online community where faculty, staff, and students from around the world share their learning materials and pedagogy. Since 1997 California State University Center for Distributed Learning has developed and provided free access to MERLOT.

SCANS (Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills

• In 1990, the Secretary of Labor (U.S. Department of Labor) appointed a commission to determine the skills our young people need to succeed in the world of work.

Web Sites for Educators - Harvard Graduate School of Education

• This collection of links, chosen and maintained by Gutman Library Research Services staff, provides links to freely available sites of interest to educators. Click on a topic to view links to related Web sites; for example, click topics related to ATEEC's focus such as Adult Education and Literacy, Education Reform; Science and Mathematics; and Training, Assessment, Evaluation, and Standards.

Math

Crossroads in Mathematics

• Standards for Introductory College Mathematics Before Calculus

Core-Plus Mathematics Project

• CPMP has developed student and teacher materials for a comprehensive standards-based three-year high school mathematics curriculum for all students, plus a fourth-year course continuing the preparation of students for college mathematics.

The Math Forum at Drexel (University)

• The Math Forum's mission is to provide resources, materials, activities, person-to-person interactions, and educational products and services that enrich and support teaching and learning in an increasingly technological world.

Mathematical Preparation of the Technical Work Force: Report of a Workshop (1995) and Reshaping School Mathematics: A Philosophy and Framework for Curriculum (1990)

• Online publications by the Mathematical Sciences Education Board of the National Research Council.

Mathematical Sciences Education Board of the National Research Council

• The Board's mission is to provide national leadership and guidance for policies, programs, and practices supporting the improvement of mathematics education at all levels and for all members of our society.

Mathematics Education at the University of Illinois - Chicago Interactive Mathematics Program (IMP)

• A Model for Mathematics Education Reform, the IMP is problem-based, consisting of four-to-eight-week units that are each organized around a central problem or theme.

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)

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Science

American Chemical Society's Technicians - Skill Standards

• A database collection of industrial workplace competencies and skills for chemistry based technicians, including safety, health, and environmental competencies and skills.  Requires a log-in. 

National Science Education Standards

• Published by the National Research Council, the National Science Education Standards prescribe a plan for science education that will make scientific literacy for all a reality in the 21st century.

National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Site Map .

• The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as "the Nation's Report Card," is the only nationally representative and continuing assessment of what America's students know and can do in various subject areas.

National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)

• NSTA offers many types of support to achieve the vision of the National Science Education Standards of the National Research Council (see this list's prior item)

Project 2061 - Science for All Americans

• The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) offers the Project 2061 book online. Project 2061. " Science for All Americans laid the groundwork for the nationwide science standards movement of the 1990s. Benchmarks for Science Literacy, published in 1993, translated the science literacy goals in Science for All Americans into learning goals or benchmarks for grades K–12. Many of today's state and national standards documents have drawn their content from Benchmarks."  From AAAS Web site.

Technology

International Technology Education Association (ITEA) Technological Literacy Standards

• A set of eight documents (several are book length): two Technological Literacy Standards publications, four addenda, and two rationale publications are available on the page as pdf files to open or download. The file sizes are stated.