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Standards for K-12 Engineering Education?

12 STANDARDS FOR K–12 ENGINEERING EDUCATION?

ANNEX

Timeline of Selected National Standards Efforts in Mathematics, Science, and Technology
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1980 Agenda for Action, published by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
(NCTM).
1983 A Nation at Risk (NCEE), call for reform of the U.S. education system.
1983 Bill Honig, newly elected state superintendent of California public schools, begins a
decade-long revision of the state public school system, the development of cur-
riculum frameworks (content standards) with aligned assessments, professsional
development, and instructional materials.
1985 The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) establishes
Project 2061, with the goal of making all Americans scientifically literate. Children
beginning school this year, when Halley’s Comet was visible from Earth, will see
the comet again in 2061, a reasonable time frame for the ambitious goals of Project
2061. The National Council on Science and Technology Education, an independent
committee, is established to oversee the project.
1985 California Mathematics Framework emphasizes “mathematical power” and
problem solving.
1987 NCTM writing teams begin reviewing curricular documents and draft standards for
curricula and evaluations.
1989 Publication of Everybody Counts, a report of the National Academies’ Mathemat-
ical Sciences Education Board
1989 The nation’s 50 governors, led by Bill Clinton of Arkansas and President G.H.W.
Bush, adopt National Education Goals for the year 2000. One goal is that the Unit-
ed States will be “first in the world in mathematics and science.”
1989 Publication of Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics, a
report by NCTM.
1989 Publication by Project 2061 of Science for All Americans, which describes the
“understandings and habits of mind . . . essential for all citizens in a scientifically
literate society.” “Science” includes mathematics, science, and the designed world.
1990 In his State of the Union address, President G. H. W. Bush announces the National
Education Goals for the year 2000. Shortly thereafter, he and Congress establish a
National Education Goals Panel (NEGP).
1990 The Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) is appointed
by the secretary of labor to determine the skills young people need to succeed in the
world of work.
1990 National Educational Assessment of Progress (NAEP) introduces State Mathe-
matics Framework, based on a “content by mathematical ability” matrix grounded
in the NCTM Curriculum and Evaluation Standards, and begins short-term trend

3 Adapted by permission of McREL from Content Knowledge: A Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for
K–12 Education, http://www.mcrel.org/standards-benchmarks/docs/purpose.asp. All rights reserved. Source:
Kendall and Marzano, 2010.
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