The Challenge: Some schools operate without a clear set of expectations
teachers and students should achieve in critically important subjects.
The Solution: Require each state to establish its own state standards of what
students should know and be able to do in the core content subjects—reading,
math and science.
How Standards Improve Education
teachers and students should achieve in critically important subjects.
The Solution: Require each state to establish its own state standards of what
students should know and be able to do in the core content subjects—reading,
math and science.
How Standards Improve Education
Standards have gone from controversy to necessity. Americans now support
higher academic standards in record numbers.
Americans understand standards are the road map to reform. They provide
guideposts for academic achievement. They clearly tell students and parents
where they are going.
No Child Left Behind requires each state to establish its own unique set of
standards for reading, math and science.
A. Taxpayer dollars will only go to states that have standards and
expectations for improving schools or teaching a solid academic curriculum.
B. Under No Child Left Behind states are required to establish their own
annual tests aligned with state standards for grades three through eight to
measure how successfully students are learning what is expected by the
standards.
Standards help direct schools toward common academic goals and unite the
community for reform and achievement.
A. Standards help set a high academic bar for selection of textbooks,
lesson plans and teacher preparation.
B. Accountability systems gather specific, objective data through tests
aligned with standards. This information is used to identify strengths and
weaknesses in the system.
C. They help schools focus resources on the best way to promote learning
and help parents track their child's progress.
No Child Left Behind gives states flexibility.
A. There are no national standards.
B. States design their own standards and their own tests.
The Resources: No Child Left Behind programs will receive more than $22.1
billion in federal funding for America's elementary and secondary schools—a
27 percent increase over 2001, and a 49 percent increase over 2000 levels
We need Lesson Plans, Classroom Activities, State Standards, and Standardized Testing.
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