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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"

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!

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

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 |

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.

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.

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.

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

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.