National Education Goals Panel
The National Education Goals Panel was set up to monitor progress towards Goals 2000 and to "work with states to develop high academic standards and assessments." [Thanks to Kirk Winters of the USDOE for keeping people informed about this and other DOE-related programs via his regular mailings.) From its Goals page, you can
Look at the eight national education goals set up by Congress and state governors.
Review national and state progress toward these goals. There is a separate page for U.S. and State Scorecards.
Search the goals reports from 1994 to the present.
Search goals panel publications (a search on "standards" brought up several hundred citations).
Download various documents in Adobe Acrobat form. These include copies of recent goals reports (including that for 1997) and several insightful position papers (check out Benchmarks and Standards as Tools for Science Education Reform, for example).
US Department of Education
State Curriculum Frameworks and Content Standards (Draft, September 1995) has description of various proposed frameworks and standards projects prepared with funding from DOE and Eisenhower National Program for Mathematics and Science Education. [These also appear on an ERIC gopher.] Much of this information is out of date.
The Arts
Foreword, Chapters 1 - 5 (.pdf) (97K)
Chapters 6, 7, Appendices (.pdf) (68K)
Career Development and Occupational Studies (CDOS)
Foreword, Chapters 1 - 5 (.pdf) (148K)
Chapter 6 (.pdf) (138K)
Chapters 7 - 9, Appendices (.pdf) (74K)
English Language Arts
Foreword, Chapters 1 - 3 (.pdf) (95K)
Chapters 4, 5, References, Appendices A, B (first part) (.pdf) (102K)
Appendices B, C, D (.pdf) (94K)
New York State Board of Regents
The New York State Board of Regents spells out its six goals for the state's schools in a policy statement
called Leadership and Learning. Of the six, the first two deal
explicitly with standards. ("All students will meet high standards
for academic performance and demonstrate the knowledge and skills
required by a dynamic world, " and "All educational institutions
will meet Regents high performance standards.")
New York State Education Department
The New York State Education Department has various bulletins related to standards and frameworks on its Elementary, Middle, Secondary, and Continuing Education (EMSC) Gopher. Among those worth reading are:
Higher Graduation and Testing Requirements (November/December 1995)
Higher Standards in English Language Arts and Mathematics, Science and Technology (February/March 1996 issue of the School Executive's Bulletin)
Overall Strategy for Raising Standards for Students in New York State (January 1996 issue of the School Executive's Bulletin)
Raising Student Achievement Standards: State and Local Partnetships
to Build Capacity for School Restructuring and Staff and Curriculum
Development (February 29, 1996)
New York State Education Department
The State Education Department has mailed out draft resource guides in several subject areas. Versions called Curriculum Resource Guides on the Web can be downloaded as lengthy pdf files in the areas of the arts, English language arts, social studies, career development and occupational studies, foreign language, and mathematics, science and technology. The pdf file for health, physical education, family and consumer sciences was added at the end of February, 1998. Meanwhile, a state Information on Curriculum Standards page has pdf copies of state curriculum standards and transcripts of Commissioner Mills' teleconference on standards.