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Standards Overview Sites:

McREL Standards

Award winning site, contains the Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for K-12 Education and a multitude of other information about and to be used with educational standards.

Wappingers Central School District: Developing Educational Standards

An annotated list of Internet sites with K-12 educational standards and curriculum frameworks documents. Excellent!

Curriculum/Learning Standards by Discipline:

Arts

What Every Young American Should Know and Be Able to Do in the Arts: Dance, Music, Theatre, Visual Arts/
National Standards for Arts Education
Online: http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/professional_resources/standards/nat_standards_main.html

Business

What America's Students Should Know and Be Able to Do in Business
Online version not found
Copies may be purchased at: http://www.nbea.org/marketfstand.html

Career/Vocational Education

Standards for Career Education
Online: http://www.mcrel.org/topics/productDetail.asp?productID=79

Civics

National Standards for Civics and Government
Online: http://www.civiced.org/stds.html

Economics

Voluntary National Content Standards in Economics
Online: http://www.ncee.net/ea/index.php

Foreign Language

Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century (1999)
Summary Online: http://www.actfl.org/index.cfm?weburl=/public/articles/details.cfm?id=33

Geography

Geography for Life: National Geography Standards
Summary Online: http://www.ncge.org/publications/tutorial/

Health

National Health Education Standards: Achieveing Health Literacy
Excerpts Online: http://www.cancer.org/downloads/STT/F&F2001.pdf

History

National Standards for History
Online: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/nchs/standards/

Language Arts

Standards for English Language Arts
Excerpts Online: http://www.ncte.org/standards/

Mathematics

Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (2000)
Online: http://standards.nctm.org/document/index.htm

Assessment Standards for School Mathematics (1995)
Online: http://standards.nctm.org/previous/assstds/index.htm

Professional Standards for Teaching Mathematics (1991)
Online: http://standards.nctm.org/previous/ProfStds/index.htm

Physical Education

National Standards for Physical Education
Excerpts Online: http://www.aahperd.org/naspe/publications-nationalstandards.html

Science

National Science Education Standards (NRC, 1996)

Online: http://books.nap.edu/html/nses/html/index.html

Benchmarks for Science Literacy (AAAS, 1993)
Online: http://www.project2061.org/tools/benchol/bolframe.htm

Science for All Americans (AAAS, 1989)

Online: http://www.project2061.org/tools/sfaaol/sfaatoc.htm

Social Studies

Expectations of Excellence
Online: http://www.ncss.org/standards/toc.html

Technology

Standards for Technological Literacy: Content for the Study of Technology

http://www.iteawww.org/TAA/Publications/STL/STLMainPage.htm