Developing Educational Standards

Updates Page (September 1995-June 1996)


Developing Educational Standards is an annotated list of Internet sites with K-12 educational standards and curriculum frameworks documents, maintained by Charles Hill and the Putnam Valley Schools in New York. Your help with updates or corrections is greatly appreciated. This page was last updated on June 21, 1996.

Updates: | Current | Sep. 1995 - June 1996 | July 1996 - June 1997 | July 1997 - June 1998 | July 1998 - Dec 1999 |

une 21, 1996 Update Information: Help needed for New York frameworks

With all the changes going on in New York State, I have set up three pages dealing with the state's new standards and frameworks, changes in its assessment process in general, and changes in the Regents exams and graduation requirements - also accessible from the New York State page (look under Putnam Valley). The information currently summarizes material that SED mails out plus whatever I have gleaned from the SED web site.

If you have Internet resources you can add to these pages, please send me information about them and I will put your documents - or links to them - on this server (for example, sample assessment tools or lessons you or your district has that directly tie in with the new frameworks; you could email me documents already formatted or send them and I will take care of the html coding). My sense is that SED is going to be looking to the BOCES, teacher centers, and districts to do a lot of this kind of work and that it does not have the resources to provide us with the kind of support material that it has supplied in the past. If this is the case, then the pages and links on this server will help us all in the months and years to come.

June 17, 2023 Update Information

• We were hit by lightning on Thursday, June 13, at about 2:30 in the afternoon. No one was hurt but we lost some important electronic components to our system and the problem was not fixed until today. If you tried to get in but couldn't - that's the reason. (If you are not aware of how things work here: no one is in charge of anything related to this web site as an official part of his or her job. Our networking is done by Paul Lee, the district's business manager, because he likes tinkering with that sort of stuff. I take care of the web site itself.) We have had to move the server to a temporary location and hope to be fully back to our original location as soon as the fried wiring is replaced.
• Added links to supplementary frameworks resources from Plymouth State College for New Hampshire to the math and science pages and to the state page.
• Added a link to the National Council on Economic Education's EconomicAmerica web site to the Professional Organizations and the social studies pages.

June 10, 2023 Update Information

• Added links to the Indiana Core 40 Science Competencies to the state and science pages.
• Added a link to the North American Association for Environmental Education and its environmental education standards to the Professional Organizations and science pages.
• Added information about the curriculum mapping work beginning to appear on Delaware's Curriculum Consumers Information Service web site to the Delaware page.
• Added a link to the draft ESL Standards prepared by TESOL and the Center for Applied Linguistics to the Professional Organizations and Foreign Language/ESL pages.
• Added a link to the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages to the Professional Organizations and Foreign Language/ESL pages.
• Updated the Minnesota Graduation Standards page and added information about the Profile of Learning to the state and relevant subject area pages.

June 3, 2023 Update Information

• Added a link to the Training Technology Resources Center to the Government and General Resources and the Occupational Education pages.
• Added links to American Federation of Teachers policy statements and other items related to standards to the Professional Organizations page.
• Added links to the American Association of School Administrators and a link on the Professional Organizations page to a news release related to standards.
• Added a link to abstracts (and some full text articles) from Education Week to the Miscellaneous Resources pages.
• Added a link to 2 plus 2, a site critical of math standards, to the Math and the Miscellaneous Resources pages.

May 27, 2023 Update Information

• Added links to curriculum standards documents for communications, math, science, and social studies to the Kanas page and to relevant subject area pages.
• Added an announcement about the "Core Content" documents to the Kentucky page.
• Added links to frameworks information for business education and industrial technology education to the Nebraska page and to relevant subject area pages.
• Added links on the New Jersey page to the "Strategic Plan for Systemic Improvement of Education in New Jersey" and to the February 1996 "Core Curriculum Standards."
• Updated links on the South Carolina and relevant subject area pages for art, foreign language, and math.
• Added a link to the US Department of Education's "Goals 2000: Increasing Student Achievement Through State and Local Initiatives" (published on April 30) to the governmental resources page; revised other DOE entries.
• Added a page with links to every known state education department.
• Added a page showing awards given to the Developing Educational Standards site.

May 13, 2023 Update Information

• Updated the Washington page with new links to standards in the areas of the Arts, Health and Fitness, Science, Social Studies, and Technology. Also added links to state assessment and background documents on the Washington standards.

May 6, 2023 Update Information

• Updated the Michigan page and links to English/language arts, math, science, and social studies.
• Added links to two excellent articles on the McREL site - one by Robert Marzano and John Kindall on "The Fall and Rise of Standards-Based Education" and the other by Don Burger on "Designing a Sustainable Standards-based Assessment System." McREL remains one of handful of best sites for educators on the web.
• Added a link to the National Center on Educational Outcomes to the professional organizations page.

April 29, 2023 Update Information

• Added new listings for Utah on the state page and on subject pages in the areas of art, health, information technology, language arts, library media, math, music, science, social studies, and vocational education.
• Created a new subject page for library media.

April 22, 2023 Update Information

• Added ESL Standards for Pre-K-12 Students, prepared by the Center for Applied Linguistics, in cooperation with the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, to the Foreign Language/ESL page and to the General Resources page.
• Added the National Standards for Business Education, prepared by the National Business Education Association, to the Occupational/Business Education page and to the General Resources page.
• Added a link to the National Science Teachers Association's Scope, Sequence & Coordination Project to the Science page and to the General Resources page.
• Updated the Council for Basic Education page with links to several articles about standards.

April 8, 2023 Update Information

• Added the Council of Chief State School Officers to the Organizations page.
• Added the Council of Great City Schools to the Organizations page.
• Added the National Center for History in the Schools to the Organizations page and updated its links on the social studies page.
• Added a link to the US Department of Education's Sites Offering Academic And Skill Standards on the Governmental Resources page.
• Added a link on the Governmental Resources and state pages to SciMathMN regarding the Statewide Systemic Initiatives program in Minnesota.
• Added a link on the Mid-continent Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL) site to an excellent article called "Eight Questions You Should Ask Before Implementing Standards-Based Education at the Local Level," by Robert J. Marzano.
• Added links to Arizona's draft documents in health, language arts, math, physical education, and workplace skills.
• Added Oregon's Proficiency-based Admission Standards System (PASS) site to the state and subject area pages.

March 25-27, 1996 Update Information

• Added information about the various Occupational Skills Standards Projects, including links and information maintained by the US Department of Education, the Mid-continent Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL), SKILLSNET, and the National Center for Research in Vocational Education.
• Added information about the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE) and the New Standards Project.
• Added links to various New York State Education Department announcements and positions papers as well as to the state's new draft framework on career development and occupational studies.

March 11, 2023 Update Information

• Updated the Montana page and relevant subject pages with links to serveral curriculum guides available in Adobe Acrobat format.
• Updated the New York page with links to information appearing on the Education Department's gopher.
• Added CAPS - Curriculum and Performance Standards - to the New York page. CAPS is a. collection of standards and curiculum projects related to standards developed by the school districts within the Putnam/Northern Westchester BOCES region.
• Updated the Vermont page and relevant subject pages with links to its "Framework of Standards and Learning Opportunities."

March 4, 2023 Update Information

• Revised site to give one page to each state and each subject area.
• Updated the Colorado page and modified its entry on the science page.
• Updated Mid-continent Reginal Laboratory entries on the Centers, Clearinghouses, etc. page and on pages for the arts, foreign language, health, language arts, math, physical education, science, and social studies.
• Made some minor changes on the Virginia page.
• Added a small amount of information about the state's frameworks to the Rhode Island page.
• Added information about the standards development process to the Texas page.
• Added the Education Excellence Network to the Organizations page.
• Added the Council for Basic Education to the Organizations and social studies pages.

February 26, 2023 Update Information

• Updated state and subject pages for Arkansas in art, English language arts, foreign language, math, reading, social studies, and science.
• Updated state and subject pages for California's Challenge Initiatives in applied learning, career preparation, foreign language, health education, history and social science, language arts, math, physical education, science, service learning, and visual and performing arts.
• Added Colorado's Board of Education policy statement on standards based education.
• Added the National Academy Press and National Academy of Sciences excellent version of the National Science Education Standards to the overview and subject pages.
• Updated state and subject pages for Maryland in math, reading, social studies, science, and writing/language usage.
• Updated state and subject pages for Massachusetts in the arts, health, mathematics, science and technology, and world languages; noted the failure of the Board of Education to endorse, so far, the English language arts and the social studies frameworks.
• Updated state and subject pages for Michigan in art, career and employability skills, English language arts, health, life management, math, physical education, science, social studies, technology, and world languages.

February 12, 2023 Update Information

• Updated information about Minnesota standards on the state and subject pages.

February 5, 2023 Update Information

• Added a link to Alaska's technology standards.
• Updated information about the delay in Arizona's standards (state page).
• Updated Colorado references to its Model Content Standards in geography, history, mathematics, reading and writing, and science (state and subject pages).
• Updated New Jersey references to its Core Curriculum Content Standards in the arts, career education, comprehensive health and physical education, language arts and literacy, mathematics, science, social studies, and world languages (state and subject pages).
• Updated New York City references to its curriculum frameworks in language other than English, language arts, mathematics, occupational education and technical studies, science, social studies, and the visual arts (state and subject pages).
• Updated New York State references to its timetable for the pilot assessment of its new frameworks (state and subject pages).
• Updated references to the Kennedy Center's ArtsEdge standards resources in the arts (subject page).

January 22, 2023 Update Information

• Split the By Subject and By State pages into two parts each so that their parts could be more easily loaded. These pages had grown to over 60k apiece, exclusive of graphics.
• Updated the New York State listings on the subject and state pages.

January 10, 2023 Update Information

• Added the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse to the Overview page and updated its listings in math and science.
• Added listings about the Georgia Quality Core Curriculum to the state and subject pages.
• Added an art listing for Nebraska to the state and subject pages.
• Added a reference to an Arizona Department of Education note that it expected to have standards pages up by January 12.
• Added a math link to the state page for Alabama, Iowa, Idaho, Kansas, Maryland, Montana, North Dakota, and Pennsylvania.
• Added a science link to the state page for Florida, Iowa, Idaho, Kansas, and North Dakota.

January 4, 2023 Update Information

• Updated New Hampshire's "K-12 Science Curriculum Framework" link on both the state and subject pages..
• Updated links to New York's frameworks and added information about the Onondaga-Cortland-Madison BOCES Regional Information Center site which puts these frameworks on line.

December 18-21, 1995 Update Information

• Added "Summary of Analyzed State Curriculum Frameworks" to the McREL section of the overview page.
• Added the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL) to the overview page, along with references to pdf files about curriculum frameworks.
• Added the Northeast and Islands Regional Laboratory (NEIRL) to the overview, along with links to documents on "Opportunity to Learn Standards."
• Added an Atlantic Monthly article about standards to the overview page.
• Added the International Technology Education Association and its technology standards project to the overview and subject pages.
• Added OASIS (On-line Activities for Standards in School) to the science and Colorado listings.
• Added the draft version of chapter 10 of the New Jersey Mathematics Standards and Framework to the math and New Jersey listings. Also added a link to the New Jersey Mathematics Coalition's Home Page (the coalition is responsible for placing the New Jersey Standards on line).

December 12, 2022 Update Information

• Added to the "Overview" Page
  • The American Association for the Advancement of Science.
  • The American Historical Association.
  • The National Academy of Sciences and ordering information for the National Science Education Standards.
  • The National Science Teachers Association - A press release supporting the new science standards.
  • The North Central Regional Educational Laboratory Pathways to School Improvement - An update to its Critical Issues series articles.
  • The Organization of American History - Information about upcoming National History Standards meetings
• Added to the "By Subject" Page
  • The American Association for the Advancement of Science (added to science).
  • The American Historical Association (added to social studies).
  • Massachusetts - Updated the social studies curriculum framework.
  • The National Academy of Sciences (added to science).
  • The National Science Teachers Association - A press release supporting the new science standards.
  • New Hampshire - K-12 Math Curriculum Frameworks.
  • The North Central Regional Educational Laboratory Pathways to School Improvement - An update to its Critical Issues series math and science articles.
  • The Organization of American History (added to social studies).
  • South Carolina - Frameworks and standards for the visual and performing arts, foreign language, and math.
• Added to the "By State" Page
  • Massachusetts - The state's five year master plan for educational reform, along with an update to the social studies curriculum framework.
  • New Hampshire - K-12 Math Curriculum Frameworks.
  • South Carolina - Frameworks and standards for the visual and performing arts, foreign language, and math.

November 27, 2022 Update Information

• State listing and Health - listed the second draft of the Massachusetts health framework.
• Overview - updated the NCSS and NCTE listings.
• Consolidated the overview and the listing by professional organization pages.

November 20, 2022 Update Information

• Overview and Math - added a link to the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory's site called "Pathways to School Improvement" and to an outstanding page called "Critical Issue: Implementing Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment Standards in Mathematics."
• State listing, English/Language Arts, and Social Studies - added New Hampshire.

November 6, 2022 Update Information

• Overview - added "Curriculum Frameworks Mailing List Postings" and a link to its sponsoring agency, the Regional Alliance for Mathematics and Science Education Reform.
• Overview - added "Goals 2000: A Progress Report" and "Example of an Academic Content Standard" to the US Department of Education section.
• Arts - added the "ArtsEdge Curriculum Connection" to the subject listing.
• Social Studies - added links to the "Center for Civic Education," a second site for the "National Standards for Civics and Government," "Civitas," and several other documents about civics education to the subject listing.
• California - added "FrameWork OnLine" to subject and state listings; added "Menodino Curriculum for the California Frameworks" sites to the state listing.
• Illinois - added "World-Class Education for the 21st Century" to the state listing.
• Massachusetts - added "second drafts" of curriculum frameworks in the arts, English/language arts, math, science and technology, and world languagse to subject and state listings.
• Missouri - added the "Proposed Show-Me Standards" pages, published in mid-October, to subject and state listings.
• New York - added "New York City Curriculum Frameworks" information from Nycenet to subject and state listings.