What is Curriculum?

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
The web site for this professional organization offers access to the journals Educational Leadership and the Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, as well as other curriculum resources and professional development opportunities. In the professional development area of their website, you can find a free online tutorial in school culture and climate.

Standards-Based Reform Movement

McREL Standards Database
This is a collection of content standards, or goals, gathered by the Mid-Continent Regional Educational Laboratory. Browse by subject or look for suggestions for activities or unit designs.

National Standards
This site, part of the huge Education World web site, includes links to state departments of education, as well as listings of voluntary standards developed by major curriculum groups.

State Standards
A web site with links to the content standards of each state, along with suggestions for lesson plans and resources to help teachers and students meet the standards of their state.

What is the Present Curriculum?

National Council of Teachers of English
This is the professional organization for teachers of English, literacy, and language arts. You can find information on curriculum trends and national standards at their web site.

ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English and Communication
This part of ERIC has been providing resources and coursework on language arts topics to parents and teachers for 40 years.

Children’s Literature Web Guide
This site, maintained by David Brown of the University of Calgary, offers all kinds of information about children’s literature, including links to books available for free online, and lists of award-winning and recommended books, as well as teaching resources and links to other "essential children’s lit sites." Especially interesting is the "Doucette Index," which links you to Internet teaching resources for specific books.

ERIC Elementary and Early Childhood Education
This Clearinghouse of the vast resources of ERIC includes a variety of advice, research reports, and links to resources for early childhood and elementary-school teachers.

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
This professional organization for math teachers offer separate sections on its web site for elementary, middle school, and high school teachers, as well as information about the organization itself.

Math Forum
The Math Forum offers different areas for teachers, students, and parents. Teacher resources include news on innovations and concerns in math education and lesson resources, arranged by subject. The site also includes the popular "Ask Dr. Math" feature.

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse
The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse offers K-12 math and sciences resources. Popular features of their website include the "Daily Dozen" current helpful web links, lesson plans, and more.

Project 2061
As described in your textbook, Project 2061 is an initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science to reform K-12 science, math and technology education. Learn more about it at the official web site.

National Council for the Social Studies
Learn about professional development opportunities and teaching resources available through this professional organization for social studies teachers.

ERIC Clearinghouse on Language and Linguistics
This portion of ERIC provides teachers with resources for teaching foreign languages.

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
Find national standards and other information at the web site of this professional organization.

Language Links
This collection of links from the University of Wisconsin’s College of Letters and Sciences can be helpful to teachers of students speaking many different languages.

National Art Education Association
This is a professional organization for art teachers.

Arts Edge
This program, from the Kennedy Center, supports arts education and integrating the arts into the curriculum.

National Association for Music Education
This is a professional organization for teachers of music.

Music Education Resource Links
This site, maintained by Carla Piper, is designed to link music teachers to resources related to the nine national content standards for music.

American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance
At this site, you can find information about national standards in physical education and other trends in teaching PE, recreation, and dance.

ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education
The web site of this ERIC clearinghouse offers access to its own publications as well as links to other publications and related sites.

School to Work
The weekly online publication Education Week has put together this "hot topic" summary of information about vocational education and how schools prepare students for the world of work.

The Association of Career and Technical Education
This is a professional organization for vocational educators.

Assessing Student Academic Performance

Nation’s Report Card
The National Assessment of Education Progress has been called the "nation’s report" card, since it has been the only ongoing national assessment program for the past thirty years.

TIMSS
This site from the National Center for Education Statistics contains a wealth of information about the Third International Mathematics and Science Study described in your textbook.

Explore Your Knowledge
The National Center for Education Statistics kids site lets your students—or you—try out questions from the TIMMS.

Additional Influences on Curriculum

The Textbook Conundrum
This article summarizes the findings of a 2001 report from the Center for Education Reform subtitled "What Are the Children Learning and Who Decides?"

ASCD PD Online
The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development offers free online tutorials in some of the instructional approaches described in this chapter of your textbook, including differentiating instruction and cooperative learning.

Cooperative Learning
The Southwest Educational Development Laboratory created this tutorial on what cooperative learning is and how it works for an audience of math and science teachers, but it includes helpful descriptions and reading recommendations for all teachers.

Foundation for Critical Thinking
This consortium of critical thinking organizations offers products and links to resources on the Web for teaching critical thinking.

Block Scheduling
The University of Minnesota's College of Education and Human Development maintains this web site with a discussion group, research updates, and links to schools that use block scheduling.

Current Curriculum Controversies

Center for Multilingual Multicultural Research
You can find research and links to many Internet resources on a variety of multicultural education topics at the web site for this center.

Multicultural Pavilion
This award-winning site from the University of Virginia offers a variety of ideas for multicultural lessons and activities and includes a reading list.

Core Knowledge Foundation
Find out more about the Core Knowledge movement at this web site.

Tracking
The weekly online publication, Education Week, has created this "hot topic" summary of information and resources on ability grouping