The Goals Panel commissioned a series of papers to report on current state efforts to implement academic standards in the areas of textbooks, professional development, curricula, and student assessments.

The commissioned papers were shared with the Goals 3-4-5 Standards Implementation Advisory Committee. The advisory committee considered these papers as it made its own recommendations to the Panel and their own organizations.

• Overcoming Structural Barriers to Good Textbooks by Harriet Tyson

• Reflections on State Efforts to Improve Mathematics and Science Education in Light of Findings from TIMSS by Andrew A. Zucker

• Teaching for High Standards by Linda Darling Hammond and Deborah Loewenberg Ball

• Improving Student Learning in Math and Science by National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the National Research Council

• Benchmarks and Standards as Tools for Science Education Reform by George D. Nelson, Ph.D., American Association for the Advancement of Science

• Persistence and Change: Standards-Based Reform in Nine States by Diane Massell, Michael Kirst, & Margaret Hoppe

• CPRE Policy Brief: Persistence and Change: Standards-Based Reform in Nine States by Diane Massell et al.

• Clarifying Questions About Persistence and Change by Diane Massell

To order the entire set of papers called, Implementing Academic Standards, go to the Publications Request Form.