The Center for School Reform publishes research and advocacy reports on such topics as charter schools, educational funding, and standards. It has published an extensive report on Developing and Implementing Academic Standards intendend to help readers assess the quality of and compliance with standards. Florida Gulf Coast University School of Education Florida Gulf Coast University School of Education has set up a SunshineStateStandards.net with links to the sunshine standards for language arts, science, social studies, math, foreign language, the arts, health, and physical education. Some of the benchmarks have links to relevant lesson plans. The HSTE site provides relevant course guides and links to some related Internet resources.
Pages dealing with standards and frameworks are under development.
The Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance , part of the state's Statewide Systemic Initiative, has a copy of the state's Curriculum Framework for Mathematics and Science . The document contains a general set of cross-curricular standards along with valuable material regarding what constitutes good teaching strategies in math and science, brief examples, references, and ideas about assessment. One portion of the document refers specifically to preservice standards for teachers. You can look at the document on line or download it in either Macintosh or Windows versions in a file that is about one meg big. Massachusetts School Library Media Association The Professional Standards Committee of the Massachusetts School Library Media Association has prepared a Standards for School Library Media Centers in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts , now available on the DOE page.