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WELCOME to the 156th Issue of EduHound Weekly!

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This week's newsletter is sponsored by T.H.E. Journal

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NOTE: There will not be an EduHound Weekly next week due to Thanksgiving.

From the Desk of Judi!

This week's topic is:

STANDARDS

Efforts continue in the development and refinement of standards. For most subject areas, there is one or more set of standards published by a nationally recognized group of subject-area experts. In addition, almost all states have published standards in the subject areas. One can infer that if a school, district, or state is to design a schooling system based on standards, these many and varied efforts must be reconciled to some degree. History of the Standards: http://198.17.205.11/standards-benchmarks/docs/history.asp

Some sites to help in this effort: 

• Standards and Benchmarks for K-12 Education (McREL)
  A compilation of content standards for K-12 curriculum in both searchable and browsable formats.
  http://198.17.205.11/standards-benchmarks/
  

• Eisenhower National Clearinghouse: Standards & Frameworks
  Sites and resources with information about or the complete text of state or national standards documents.
  http://www.enc.org/professional/standards/
  

• Developing Educational Standards
  This Internet site from Wappingers Central School District maintains links to many state frameworks and other standards information.
  http://edstandards.org/Standards.html
  

• ISTE Standards
  In a unique partnership with teachers and teacher educators, curriculum and education associations, government, businesses, and private foundations, ISTE has responded with its National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) Project.
  http://www.iste.org/standards/

Note: Instead of copying and pasting these links into your browser, simply go to www.eduhound.com/mainpage.cfm and select our "Standards & Assessments " category.

Good Luck!

Judi

EduHound Spotlight Site of the Week!

In honor of Standards, this week's featured site is:

StateStandards.com
http://www.statestandards.com

StateStandards.com, a free service from Scantron , is a single site for accessing lesson plans based on state curriculum standards. For schools and districts that have not yet published their local curriculum standards documents on the Web, teachers can search for lesson plans from their state standards on this new Web site. StateStandards.com contains search-enabled curriculum standards documents for 40+ U.S. states.

Good Luck!

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EduHound Spotlight School/District of the Week!

Birmingham Public Schools
Birmingham, Michigan
http://www.birmingham.k12.mi.us

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EduHound Spotlight Classroom of the Week!

Mrs. Cook's Kindergarten
@ Lone Oak Elementary
Paducah, Kentucky
http://loneoak.mccracken.k12.ky.us/les/Teachers/dcook/home.htm

See for Yourself & Submit your Classroom Today!

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Educational Conference Planning

Other upcoming conferences:

• Midwest Education Technology Conference (2004)
  January 26-28, 2004 - St. Louis, Missouri
  http://www.csd.org/metc2004
• 22nd Annual International Conference- Technology, Reading & Learning Difficulties (TRLD) 2004
  January 29- 31, 2004 - San Francisco, California
  http://www.trld.com

*For a complete listing of all educational conferences, check out T.H.E. Journal's Calendar at: http://www.theconferencecalendar.com

Ask Judi!

This week brings an announcement from the National Center for Education Statistics:

The Release of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) The Nation's Report Card: Reading and Mathematics 2003

Valena W. Plisko -- Associate Commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics

November 13, 2003

Today the Center is presenting data drawn from the Highlights Reports for the 2003 Reading and Mathematics Assessments of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or "NAEP." These assessments were conducted earlier this year in all 50 states in reading and mathematics in the fourth and eighth grades. The District of Columbia and the school systems operated by the Department of Defense for domestic and overseas personnel also participated, a total of 53 jurisdictions, more than have participated in any previous assessment.

• 2003 NAEP Reading Assessment
  
• 2003 NAEP Mathematics Assessment

Complete results for The Nation's Report Card: Reading and Mathematics 2003, Reading and Mathematics are available on the web through the NAEP Home page at:
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/

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