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September 2001 | Volume 59 | Number 1
Making Standards Work
Feature Articles
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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Letter
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A Letter from the ASCD Nominations Committee
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Your Turn / A Survey for EL Readers
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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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Online Only
EL Extra
Vicki Hancock
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Copyright © 2001 by Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
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