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lines.
1990 Publication of California Science Framework, which incorporates ideas from
Science for All Americans.
1990 The New Standards Project, a joint project of the National Center on Education and
the Economy and the Learning Research and Development Center, is formed to
create a system of standards and assessments for student performance in literacy,
mathematics, science, and applied learning.
1991 SCANS publishes What Work Requires of Schools, which describes the knowledge
and skills necessary for success in the workplace.
1991 Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander asks Congress to establish the National
(June) Council on Education Standards and Testing (NCEST) to provide a vehicle for
reaching bipartisan consensus on national standards and testing.
1991 NCTM publishes Professional Standards for Teaching Mathematics.
1991 NAEP publishes Science Framework based on state frameworks and Science for All
Americans; used for NAEP science assessments in 1996, 2000, and 2005.
1991 The National Science Foundation (NSF) begins to fund State Systemic Initiatives
based on the NCTM Standards and the “emerging national science education
standards.”
1992 NCEST releases Raising Standards for American Education to Congress, proposing
(Jan.) the establishment of an oversight board, the National Education Standards and
Assessment Council (NESAC), to certify content and performance standards, as
well as “criteria” for assessments.
1992 The National Research Council (NRC), with major funding from the U.S.
Department of Education and NSF, establishes the National Committee on Science
Education Standards and Assessment (NCSESA) to oversee standards development
in content, teaching, and assessment.
1993 AAAS Project 2061 publishes Benchmarks for Science Literacy.
1993 NCTM publishes Assessment Standards for School Mathematics.
1993 NEGP Technical Planning Group issues “Promises to Keep: Creating High
(Nov.) Standards for American Students” (referred to as the Malcolm Report) calling for
the development of a National Education Standards and Improvement Council
(NESIC), which would give voluntary national standards a stamp of approval.
1994 President Clinton signs Goals 2000: Educate America Act into law. The legislation
(March) creates the National Education Standards and Improvement Council (NESIC) to
certify national and state content and performance standards, opportunity-to-learn
standards, and state assessments; adds two new goals to the national education
goals; brings to nine the number of areas for which students should demonstrate
“competency over challenging subject matters.” The subject areas now covered
include foreign languages, the arts, economics, and civics and government.
1994 The International Technology Education Association (ITEA) forms the Technology
(Sept.) for All American’s Project, which begins development of Rationale and Structure
for the Study of Technology. The first in a series of three documents, this publica-
tion makes the case for the importance of technological literacy and paves the way
for the development of technological literacy standards.
1995 The New Standards Project releases Performance Standards, a three-volume “con-
(Nov.) sultation draft” for English language arts, mathematics, science, and “applied learn-

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