State Education Standards - Part 3
Each state in the U.S. has
its own set of standards and assessment requirements. Links to the various
state curriculum standards pages are listed below with a short description of what
the standards represent in each of the states.
State Curriculum Standards
MO MT NE NV NH NJ
NM NY NC ND OH OK
The Outstanding Schools
Act of 1993 called together master teachers, parents
and policy-makers from around the state to create Missouri academic standards.
The academic standards incorporate and strongly promote the understanding that
active, hands-on learning will benefit students of all ages. By integrating and
applying basic knowledge and skills in practical and challenging ways across
all disciplines, students experience learning that is more engaging and
motivating.
Missouri
students must also build a solid foundation of factual knowledge and basic
skills in the traditional content areas. This is covered with the State Performance
Standards. The statements listed here represent such a foundation in reading, writing, mathematics, world and American
history, forms of government, geography, science, health/physical education and
the fine arts.
The Montana Office of
Public Instruction has extensive content and performance standards
available. Additionally they have
a helpful “Standards at a Glance Chart” and various
“Standards Integration Charts.”
The Nebraska Standards documents are not a curriculum
guide, defining what is taught at each grade level or prescribing how content
should be taught. The Mathematic Standards,
Science Standards, Reading/Writing Standards, Social
Studies/History Standards are guides for local school districts and
communities as they work together to set high expectations for ALL students and
plan instruction that enables students to meet those expectations.
The Nevada
legislature passed major education reform legislation during its 1997 and 1999
sessions. A major emphasis of this legislation was to create standards to
help improve the academic achievement of Nevada's students.
The Nevada Council to Establish Academic Standards for
Public Schools was established to accomplish that goal. They were charged with
establishing high, measurable standards in English language arts, mathematics,
and science, social studies, computer and technology education, health and
physical education, and the arts.
The purpose of the New Hampshire curriculum framework is
to establish high standards for career development; and to serve as a guide for
making local decisions about curriculum development, delivery, and assessment
in this important area.
New Jersey wrestles with a paradox regarding the
governance of public education. They have a 120-year-old constitutional
guarantee that regardless of residency, its children will receive a "Thorough
and Efficient" education. Throughout this same time period, the State has
evolved into approximately 600 independent school districts that exercise
considerable "local control." Confronting the State, therefore, is
the issue of how to ensure that all children receive a "T&E"
education, while each district determines its own curriculum.
Core
curriculum content standards are an attempt to define the meaning of
"Thorough" in the context of the 1875 State constitutional guarantee
that students would be educated within a Thorough and Efficient system of free
public schools. They describe what all students should know and be able to do
upon completion of a thirteen-year public education.
New Mexico Content
Standards, Benchmarks, and Performance Standards are available in PDF form in
curricular areas such as the arts, mathematics, sciences, social sciences, and
career readiness.
This website is home to
the New York (CIA) Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment.
Curriculum Resource Guides are available
through the New York Department of Education.
From this easy to navigate
curriculum terminal you can travel to specific
educational goals and objectives based on discipline and grade level. This
service provides a convenient way for teachers, administrators, and parents to
verify the instructional objectives of the Standard Course of Study at any
given grade and subject area.
Since 1994, North Dakota
has undergone the slow, deliberate process of developing content standards in
the core curriculum areas of English language arts, mathematics, science,
social studies, health, the arts, physical education, world language, and
technology.
The Center for Curriculum and Assessment is developing
Academic Content Standards for what all Ohio students should know and be able
to do progressing from elementary school through middle school to high school
and for success in college in academic subject areas: English language arts,
mathematics, science, social studies, technology, the arts, and foreign
languages.
Every three
years, the Oklahoma State Board of Education is required by law to review and
revise the state’s core curriculum.
This document represents Oklahoma’s core curriculum, Priority
Academic Student Skills (PASS) as coordinated and compiled by the State Department of Education
(SDE). Many
content areas now have national standards or have revised standards; therefore,
efforts have been made to align the core curriculum with existing national
standards.
Additional useful
publications related to standards and assessment can be found here
including a Phonics Toolkit for teachers.
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