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

 

Missouri

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.

 

Montana

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.”

 

Nebraska

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.

 

Nevada     

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.

 

New Hampshire

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                

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      

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.

 

New York 

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.

 

North Carolina  

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.

 

North Dakota    

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.

 

Ohio         

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.

 

Oklahoma

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.