Using Content Standards
AN A TO Z ARTICLE
Why have the government content standards on a homeschooling
website?
Planning a Custom Education
AN A TO Z ARTICLE
The real trick to homeschooling is, believe it or
not, to forget what "they" have put in place of goals
for your child.
Build
Your Own Curriculum
AN A TO Z AFFILIATE
Curriculum Scope and Sequence from Sonlight. Recommendations
for Christian homeschoolers. Core programs available for purchase.
Core
Knowledge
An independent, non-profit, non-partisan organization founded
in 1986 by E. D. Hirsch, Jr., author of many books including
Cultural
Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know and The
Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have Them.
Developing
Educational Standards
An annotated list of Internet sites with K-12 educational standards
and curriculum frameworks documents for each U.S. state and Canada.
Effective
State Standards for U.S. History: A 2003 Report Card
Education does not exist in a vacuum, and history standards have
inevitably become tangled up in profound realities of American
life, i.e., the anti-educational values promoted in popular culture
and the bitter turf wars, culture wars, and legitimacy wars among
interest groups at all levels of American society. Thomas B.
Fordham Institute.
Geography
Standards
As geography educators, we had a vision in mind as we wrote the
standards. We believed in the power and beauty of geography.
We wanted to help students to see, understand, and appreciate
the web of relationships between people, places, and environments.
National Geographic Society.
Guide
to Building Visual Arts Lessons
This Guide is a tool to help educators and curriculum developers
create curricula that reflect a comprehensive approach to learning
and teaching in and through art. From the Getty Museum.
MarcoPolo
| Internet Content for the Classroom
The foundation simply brings all the Content Partner resources
together under an umbrella web site providing a means by which
users can search for resources, download free materials and access
commercial-free PK-12 learning activities. The foundation also
assures that all resources meet high-level quality standards.
Mathematics
Teachers' Familiarity With Standards and Their Instructional
Practices: 1995 and 1999
This study shows that more teachers became familiar with state
standards, and changed the way they taught math. It is interesting
to note that in the US, math scores dropped in the same time
period according to another
study.
McREL Content Standards
If you are looking for a thorough, yet simple guide for what
your children can understand within age ranges rather than grades,
this is a good place to start.
National
Standards
Education World presents the objectives of the voluntary National
Education Standards for the major subject areas as a means for
educators to stay abreast of the current efforts being made in
the area of National Standards.
The
National Standards for Arts Education
If our civilization is to continue to be both dynamic and nurturing,
its success will ultimately depend on how well we develop the
capacities of our children, not only to earn a living in a vastly
complex world, but to live a life rich in meaning.
Scope
and Sequence
The World Book Encyclopedia has a "typical" course
of study covering preschool through grade 12. This list is not
adequate to fulfill state requirements for an "equivalent"
education, so only use as a rough guideline.