What are standards? Who sets them? How can educators and students be held
accountable? This guide to standards-based schooling answers all these questions and more while
providing many essential tools for standards-based education:
- examples of performance tasks and rubrics for assessing students on achievement of standards
- suggestions for how to track student progress in meeting and exceeding standards
- sample report cards showing how to report student progress on achieving standards
All advice and recommendations are drawn from standards-based efforts that have taken place in
hundreds of schools.
