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Documents About Standards

• Here are abstracts of projects to develop state curriculum frameworks and content standards, which the Department supported (beginning in 1992) through a competitive process. These abstracts are a resource for states and local school districts.

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• The 1996 National Education Summit (site disabled) features background papers, articles, and other information (including a discussion forum) on standards and technology, two key issues at the two-day meeting attended by 41 governors and 49 corporate leaders in Palisades, New York, on March 26-7.

• Developing Content Standards: Creating a Process for Change (October 1993) is a policy brief from the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE).

• The American Federation of Teachers offers position papers on standards, a state-by-state progress report on setting standards, excerpts from exams taken by students in other countries, and more.

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