Curriculum Standards

 

Other Curriculum Standards Resources and Links

http://www.isbe.state.il.us/ils/lstandards.html  
Illinois State Learning Goals page 

http://www.cps.k12.il.us/Instruction/CAS/  
The Chicago Public Schools Academic Standards and Frameworks and an introduction to them. 

http://intranet.cps.k12.il.us/
The Chicago Public Schools Instructional Intranet site.  The "Programs of Study" (POS) section includes draft POS statements for Grades 6, 7, and 8 that outline units and subjects to study for each grade level.  The POS are in pdf format and require Adobe Acrobat Reader to access. 
The CASE (Chicago Academic Standards Examination) is based on the Programs of Study, which is based on the Chicago Academic Standards. 

http://www.aft.org/edissues/standards/index.htm
American Federation of Teachers Academic Standards page includes documents like "Making Standards Matter" report of November 1999. 

http://www.edexcellence.net/library/soss2000/2000soss.html
The State of State Standards Report 2000 compares assessment and accountability across the United States, assigning a grade to each state 

http://www.ash.udel.edu/ash/teacher/teacherframe.html
The Alphabet Superhighway page of links about standards.  This is a very comprhensive set of links and articles. 

http://www.achieve.org/achieve/achievestart.nsf/Search?OpenForm
Achieve's National Clearinghouse site has a searchable Standards database that allows students, parents, and educators to analyze or track specific standards according to grade level, subject matter, and state. 

http://www.thegateway.org/ 
The Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM), a project of the U.S. Dept. of Education and the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information and Technology, that allows educators to search for lesson 
plans and activities on the Web by subject matter, grade level, and author. 

http://www.explorasource.com/educator/
A free website that points out multi-media resources based on the topic, grade level, subject matter, and standards document you choose.  The resources in the database are books, CD-rom, other software, or Web-based. 

http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/search.htm
PBS Online Teacher Resource page includes this searchable database of all PBS lesson plans and curriculum online.  The search can correlate the activities with many different standards documents. 

http://communities.msn.com/CurriculumStandardsOnline
Microsoft Network Community about Curriclum Standards.  Teachers sign up and post discussion topics about curriculum standards and technology integration.  There is not much traffic 
on this bullentin board. 

http://www.k12.msn.com/LessonConnection/Administrator.asp
Here you can download the Microsoft Lesson Connection Wizard, which claims it allows 
curriculum administrators to correlate lessons on the Internet and specific learning objectives in 
curriculum standards documents.  You can add search links to HTML versions of your district's 
standards.  You need Microsoft Internet Explore version 5.0 or higher and at least Windows 95 to download the wizard.