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California State Standards

Author:   Chris Cameron  
Posted: 2/21/2000; 12:13:59 AM
Topic: California State Standards
Msg #: 38 (top msg in thread)
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Environmental Education providers like zoos, nature centers, and State Parks provide excellent environmental education opportunities for teachers. But with the push for accountability to the California State Standards and Frameworks teachers need to know how these EE programs correlate to the standards they need to teach! It is imperative that all EE providers become familiar with these Standards.

The California Board of Education is the best place to get the latest copy of the K-12 California Education Standards.

Many environmental education providers have already completed the task, and here are examples of their finished product.


Need help with correlating your present program to the State Standards? Here are the beginning steps: How to correlate your program to State standards.

NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND

This law represents his education reform plan and contains the most sweeping changes to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) since it was enacted in 1965. It changes the federal government's role in kindergarten-through-grade-12 education by asking America's schools to describe their success in terms of what each student accomplishes. The act contains the President's four basic education reform principles: stronger accountability for results, increased flexibility and local control, expanded options for parents, and an emphasis on teaching methods that have been proven to work.




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