Brief descriptions and ordering information for each are available on the center's publications page while copies can be downloaded from a page of curricular materials. Finally, an articles and papers page has links to at least one article about civics standards. The standards represent a synthesis of research literature regarding which instructional practices appear effective regardless of subject area or of student or teacher age or background. The Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement offers summaries and full-text Adobe Acrobat versions of research reports, some of which deal with standards and frameworks. It made several significant recommendations including one that they should be more informative, draw upon current research, and recognize the complexity involved in properly implementing standards-based frameworks.
Several reports deal with assessment and, indirectly, standards.
While the amount of material concerning standards and frameworks is small, the reports are also worth looking at in the own right. It seems as if every visit reveals some new article, reference work, teaching idea, framework, or classroom activity and it would be easy to spend hours mining the ENC site. Some articles deal with standards, others with curriculum, the use of technology, and assessment. Clicking on a title takes you to the article. Short of having an extremely extensive personal library, with subscriptions to all these journals, you cannot beat the breadth and quality of information ENC has made available here.