A Comprehensive Guide to Designing Standards-based Districts, Schools, and Classrooms

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About This Book

This book articulates a process by which schools and districts can design their own standards-based system of education and provides models for implementing standards-based education. Chapter 1 describes the history of and impetus for the standards movement. Chapter 2 addresses such issues as: Where will the standards come from? What type of standards shall be used? Who will be involved in setting them? The many formats in which a school or district can articulate its standards and benchmarks are described in chapter 3. Chapter 4 discusses how to decide the levels at which benchmarks will be articulated. Who is responsible for assessing students and how will they be assessed are questions addressed in the fifth chapter. Examples of classroom assessments are included. Chapter 6 considers how a school or district might report student performance using assessment data from the national…