Organizations with information on standards - Center for Public Education

The following organizations offer information on standards. (Note that if you select an organization's web site link, you will leave the Center for Public Education web site.)

Standards, policy, and quality

Achieve, Inc.
Achieve was created by the nation’s governors and business leaders to help states prepare all young people for postsecondary education, work, and citizenship by raising academic standards and achievement in America’s schools. Achieve is a resource for reports and reviews on the quality of state standards.
http://www.achieve.org

Education Week
This weekly publication covers national, state, and local education news. Its annual Quality Counts report grades states on the quality and status of their efforts to implement standards-based reforms. Use of the site may require registration.
http://www.educationweek.org

Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL)
McREL conducts scientifically based education research and evaluation, and provides professional development in a wide range of areas to help educators translate research into practice.
http://www.mcrel.org

National standards
Core subjects

National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP)
NAEP is the only nationally representative and continuing assessment of what America’s students know and can do in various subject areas. Since 1969, assessments have been conducted periodically in reading, mathematics, science, writing, U.S. history, civics, geography, and the arts.
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/

English

National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
Since 1911, NCTE has been devoted to improving, at all levels of education, the teaching and learning of English and the language arts. NCTE provides a forum for the profession, an array of professional development opportunities for teachers, and a framework for cooperation to deal with issues that affect the teaching of English.
http://www.ncte.org/about/over/standards/110846.htm?source=gs

International Reading Association (IRA)
Founded in 1956, IRA is a professional organization for those involved in teaching reading to learners of all ages. Its members are dedicated to promoting high levels of literacy for all.
http://www.reading.org/resources/issues/reports/professional_standards.html

Civics
Center for Civic Education
The Center for Civic Education is a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational corporation dedicated to fostering the development of informed, responsible participation in civic life by citizens committed to values and principles fundamental to American constitutional democracy.
http://www.civiced.org/stds.html

Geography

National Geographic Society
The goal of the National Geography Standards is to produce a geographically informed person who sees meaning in the arrangement of things in space and applies a spatial perspective to life situations.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/education/standardslist.html

History

National Center for History in the Schools, UCLA
The history standards were developed under the guidance of the National Council for History Standards by the National Center for History in the Schools at the University of California, Los Angeles. The standards were revised to their present version in 1996 and have served as a template and guide to the more than 30 states who have developed state history standards. Use of the history standards is voluntary.
http://nchs.ucla.edu/standards/

National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)
The Curriculum Standards for Social Studies were developed by the Task Force of the National Council for the Social Studies and approved by the NCSS Board of Directors in April 1994.
http://www.socialstudies.org/standards/

Science

American Association for the Advancement of Science, Project 2061
To help science educators convey key evolution concepts to their students, Project 2061 has created a guide to relevant resources available in its science education reform tools.
http://www.project2061.org/

National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)
Founded in 1944, NSTA promotes excellence and innovation in science teaching and learning. NSTA’s membership includes science teachers, science supervisors, administrators, scientists, business and industry representatives, and others involved in and committed to science education.
http://www.nsta.org/standards