National Level Education Information

Much like New York State Department of Education has Learning Standards, the nation as a whole has a set of criteria from which to teach and measure educational practices and student achievement. In the interest of presenting both state and federal expectations for teaching, we include the information from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) of the National Center for Educational Statistics.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress also known as "the Nation's Report Card," is the only nationally representative and continuing assessment of what America's students know and can do in various subject areas. The assessment provides a series of measurable skills in various learning arenas much like the Learning Standards developed by the New York State Department of Education.

Each NAEP assessment is built around an organizing framework, which is the blueprint that guides the development of the assessment instrument and determines the content to be assessed.

Frameworks capture a range of subject-specific content and thinking skills needed by students in order to deal with the complex issues they encounter inside and outside their classrooms.

The following links connect to sites that define the content and skills determined necessary for each curriculum area and the framework on which they were based (if available).

The Arts

Assessment Summary: http://www.nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/arts/whatmeasure.asp

Civics

Assessment Summary: http://www.nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/civics/whatmeasure.asp

Framework (pdf file): http://www.nagb.org/pubs/civics.pdf

Geography

Assessment Summary: http://www.nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/geography/whatmeasure.asp

Framework (pdf file): http://www.nagb.org/pubs/gframework2001.pdf

History

Assessment Summary: http://www.nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/ushistory/whatmeasure.asp

Framework (pdf file): http://www.nagb.org/pubs/hframework2001.pdf

Mathematics