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September 2001 | Volume 59 | Number 1

Making Standards Work


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Perspectives / Making Standards Work

Marge Scherer

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Standards: Here Today, Here Tomorrow

Matthew Gandal and Jennifer Vranek

Advice from the directors of Project Achieve about how to make standards-based reform a success for the long term.

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How and Why Standards Can Improve Student Achievement: A Conversation with Robert J. Marzano

Marge Scherer

Calling standards our best hope for improving achievement, Marzano advocates reducing the number of standards and initiating standards-based assessment.

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Helping Standards Make the Grade

Thomas R. Guskey

Criterion-based assessments alleviate the necessity of relying solely on high-stakes tests to measure student achievement.

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A+ Accountability in Florida?

Paul S. George

The Florida A+ Program has motivated principals to focus on strategies that improve test scores, but reaction is mixed about the impact on achievement.

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California Testing: How Principals Choose Priorities

James Bushman, Greg Goodman, Sharon Brown-Welty and Shelly Dorn

In California, principals gear up to help low-achieving students through individualizing instruction, identifying new programs, and expanding schedules.

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Castles, Kings . . . and Standards

Susan M. Drake

How can teachers use standards to integrate the curriculum?

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Standards for Diverse Learners

Paula Kluth and Diana Straut

We can realize the promise of standards only if we make them developmental and flexible, not one-size-fits-all.

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Tools for Teachers

Deborah E. Burns and Jeanne H. Purcell

Five helpful ways for teachers to make sense of standards.

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Putting Money Where It Matters

Karen Hawley Miles

Why and how we must realign spending and staffing to match our commitments and goals.

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How External Exit Exams Spur Achievement

John H. Bishop, Ferran Mañe and Michael Bishop

In states that mandate curriculum-based external exit examinations, students realize significant benefits.

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Space to Learn

Genét Simone

The author sketches a portrait of an effective teacher, who manages to meet the demands of standards while fostering a community for learners.

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How Does a Child Understand a Standard?

Elizabeth A. Hebert

Listening to the conversations of elementary students yields insight into their thoughts about learning.

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Departments

Voices: The Superintendent / The Race Every Student Must Finish

Dewitt Jones

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Research Link / The Use and Misuse of Standardized Tests

John H. Holloway

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The Shrink in the Classroom / Too Sad to Learn?

Steven C. Schlozman

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Response / The Facts About Comprehensive School Reform

Robert E. Slavin

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A Letter from the ASCD Nominations Committee

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Having Your Say

Lisa Bintrim and Kevin Davis

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ASCD in Action

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Web Wonders

Amy Eckman

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