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Montana Standards-Based Education k-12
http://www.opi.mt.gov/PUB/PDF/Accred/09StandardsFramework.pdf
Montana k-12 Standards-Based Education to improve learning and teaching
What all Montana students will know, understand and be able to do when they graduate from high school, ready for work and postsecondary education.

Benchmarks and Standards
http://tinyurl.com/6hll2r
Benchmarks and Standards
List at "Primary School"

Sustainable Schools
http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/sustainableschools/
Sustainable Schools
The Sustainable Schools area of Teachernet is designed to support schools on their journey to sustainability, introducing the principles of sustainable development and offering guidance on how to embed these principles into the heart of school life.
The site provides useful information for all sectors of the school community, including the leadership team, the management team, teachers and parents, and offers a number of excellent online and downloadable tools (auditing, benchmarking, environmental assessment) to help schools identify the best route to becoming more sustainable.
The Sustainable Schools site is designed to help school managers and teachers to assess current practice, and to decide where to go next.
In the Tools section you can access a number of school improvement tools. These help schools assess current practice, identify areas for improvement, and begin the process of change.

Teaching to Academic Standards (workshop)
http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/standards/index.html
Welcome to Teaching to Academic Standards. Start here in the Explanation section, which is all about the CONCEPT. Then go on to Demonstration and the following sections, where we move from CONCEPT to CLASSROOM!

The Registry of Outcome Evaluators
http://whatworks.ed.gov/technicalassistance/EvlSearch.asp
The Registry of Outcome Evaluators
The information in the Registry of Outcome Evaluators is supplied solely by the evaluators themselves. Neither the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) nor the U.S. Department of Education endorses any individuals or organizations listed in the Registry.

2003 National Awards for Quality Schooling (NAQS)
http://www.dest.gov.au/Ministers/Media/Nelson/2003/11/n510031103.asp
Australian 2003 National Awards for Quality Schooling (NAQS).. the 16 winning schools

Developing Educational Standards
http://edstandards.org/Standards.html
Developing Educational Standards
Good teachers have standards in mind when they set their lessons up, where the idea of a "standard" represents a specific idea of what the teacher expects a student to recall, replicate, manipulate, understand, or demonstrate at some point down the road - and of how the teacher will know how close a student has come to meeting that standard.
We have established this page as a repository for as much information about educational standards and curriculum frameworks from all sources (national, state, local, and other) as can be found on the Internet.

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse: Standards & Frameworks
http://www.enc.org/professional/standards/
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse: Standards & Frameworks
Sites and resources with information about or the complete text of USA state or national standards documents.

Content standards for K-12 curriculum (USA)
http://www.mcrel.org/standards-benchmarks/
Content standards for K-12 curriculum USA
Many educators see the publication of the now-famous report A Nation at Risk (National Commission on Excellence in Education, 1983) as the initiating event of the modern standards movement.
Amid growing concerns about the educational preparation of the nation's youth, President Bush and the nation's governors called an Education Summit in Charlottesville in September 1989. That summit concluded with the establishment of six broad goals for education that were to be reached by the year 2000. The goals and their rationale are published under the title The National Education Goals Report: Building a Nation of Learners (National Education Goals Panel [NEGP], 1991).
The purpose of our project is to address the major issues surrounding content standards, provide a model for their identification, and apply this model in order to identify standards and benchmarks in the subject areas. McREL's standards database |

NSDC LIBRARY: International Comparisons
http://www.nsdc.org/educatorindex.htm
Using lesson study to improve teaching | World-class learning: Making the best even better |

UK Target Setting
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/a-z/TARGET_SETTING.html
Governing bodies of all maintained primary and secondary schools, including special schools (except special schools in hospitals), must set targets each autumn for improving pupil performance. Current regulations state that targets must be set for pupil attainment at Key Stage 2 and in the last year of compulsory schooling. However, new regulations (subject to Pariliamentary approval in March 2001) will require Governing bodies to set targets for pupils at Key Stage 3. The first Key Stage 3 targets for tests in 2002 should be set by the end of June 2000. For subsequent years Key Stage 3 targets will be set at the same time as other targets.

Schools : Achieving Success (UK)
http://www.dfes.gov.uk/achievingsuccess/
The Schools – achieving success White Paper is a significant package for the reform of secondary education. It sets out our vision for the education service for the years ahead, building on the excellent foundations laid over the past four years.
Consultation Paper

National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards
http://cresst96.cse.ucla.edu/
Funded by the U.S. Department of Education and the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) conducts research on important topics related to K-12 educational testing.

Standards for Success
http://www.s4s.org/
Standards for Success employs a two-part strategy, designed to establish a relationship between university admissions and state K-12 standards and assessments.
Standards for Success (http://www.s4s.org) was created to explore the relationship between state standards and university admissions requirements.

National Dialogue on Standards-Based Education
http://www.nationaldialogue.org/index.html
The National Dialogue is a forum for participants to discuss a critical topic: standards-based education. The Dialogue will take place over the next two years and will be a collective, cumulative process that includes online, "virtual" dialogues as well as Dialogue events.

Achieve
http://www.achieve.org/achieve/achievestart.nsf
Achieve, founded in 1996, is an independent, bipartisan, nonprofit organization that helps states raise academic standards, measure performance against those standards, establish clear accountability for results and strengthen public confidence in our education system.

Institute of Quality Assurance: IQA
http://www.iqa.org/
IQA, the Institute of Quality Assurance, is the UK's leading body for the advancement of quality practices, a respected contributor to policy issues at a national and international level and can give you the opportunity to help shape the future of business.

INEI International Network for Educational Improvement
http://www.inei.org.uk/
To provide consultancy of the highest quality through innovative forms of partnership with the users of education, drawing on local and international expertise to extend the boundaries of educational thinking and practice.

Standards
http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/WCE/archives/standard.htm
These sites provide useful and current information about educational standards, both content and technology. In addition, Jeff has also included three "archive" resources for information about the beginnings and progress of the current educational standards efforts.

Developing Educational Standards
http://putwest.boces.org/Standards.html
The growth of the Internet has given us the chance to index the sources of information about standards in one place and place that information at anyone's electronic fingertips. We have established this page as a repository for as much information about educational standards and curriculum frameworks from all sources (national, state, local, and other) as can be found on the Internet.

Teacher Quality
http://www.ed.gov/inits/teachers/teach.html
Teachers are the most basic educational resource that communities provide their children. Plans to increase student learning—to improve reading skills, to integrate technology into schools, to reach high standards—will succeed only when we focus on the quality of instruction in all our clgracerooms. Meeting the challenges of today's clloverooms requires that teachers know and do more than ever before. Therefore, they need to be well-prepared and supported throughout their careers.

Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks
http://www.mcrel.org/products/standards/contentknowledge.asp
Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for K-12
McREL has received international recognition for this compendium of more than 600 pages on the identification and articulation of content standards and benchmarks. The publication presents a coherent set of standards for primary, upper elementary, middle school, and high school in an easy-to-read and consistent format. The compendium synthesizes information from more than 116 documents, reports, and other materials compiled by professional education organizations in the following content areas: language arts, mathematics, science, geography, foreign language, history, arts, economics, civics, health, physical education, behavioral studies, life skills, and technology.

Quality in Schools
http://www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/quality/index.html
An Australian initiative.......

The Standards Site (UK)
http://www.standards.dfee.gov.uk/

ASCD OnLine Tutorial (Multimedia)
http://webserver2.ascd.org/tutorials/tutorial2.cfm?ID=3&TITLE=Standards
The Definition of Standards
Statements of what students should know and be able to do. Different types of standards address various aspects important to learning: / Content standards cover what students are to learn in various subject areas, such as mathematics and science. / Performance standards specify what levels of learning are expected. / Opportunity-to-learn standards state the conditions and resources necessary to give all students an equal chance to meet performance standards. / World-class standards indicate content and performances that are expected of students in other industrialized countries.

Rethinking Schools : OnLine magazine
http://www.rethinkingschools.org/
Only some of the articles available online..

Eliminating the Barriers to Improve Teaching
http://www.ed.gov/inits/teachers/barriers2000/Barriers2000.doc
Eliminating the Barriers to Improving Teaching
Recruitment of Quality Teachers | Preparation of Quality Teachers | Professional Development for Teachers | Retention of Quality Teachers | Development of Effective Leaders |

Teacher Quality
http://www.ed.gov/teacherquality/
Teachers are the most basic educational resource that communities provide their children. Plans to increase student learning—to improve reading skills, to integrate technology into schools, to reach high standards—will succeed only when we focus on the quality of instruction in all our classrooms. Meeting the challenges of today's classrooms requires that teachers know and do more than ever before. Therefore, they need to be well-prepared and supported throughout their careers.
Recruiting | Preparing New Teachers | Raising Standards for Teachers | Professional Development | Research and Dissemination | Teachers Share Their Wisdom | Classroom Resources | Speeches and Studies |

StateStandards.com
http://www.statestandards.com/
State educational standards coupled to lesson plans and resources.
StateStandards.com, a free service from EdVISION.com, is a single site for accessing lesson plans based on state curriculum standards. For schools districts that have not yet published their local curriculum standards documents on the Web, teachers can search for lesson plans from state standards on this new Web site. StateStandards.com contains search-enabled curriculum standards documents for 40+ U.S. states and is available today.

Quality Start
http://www.qualitystart-sandwell.org.uk
Quality Start was a five year raising achievement project in Sandwell. It involved a package of support linked to key school priorities. As a school improvement vehicle it set out principles of effective teaching and learning and attempted to share/highlight good practice.

Standards and Assessment Resource Bank
http://www.aclin.org/sarb/
Answers to many questions about .... accountability, assessment, community, curriculum and how they relate to standards.

Developing Educational Stabdards
http://www.putwest.boces.org/Standards.html
This site is maintained by a group of schools in New York State... both USA and International information.