Council for Basic Education
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Grants
8
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Total Awarded
$627,000
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Years
1987 - 1999
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Categories
Grants
1999 (1 year)
$25,000
To support a conference to promote the implementation of academic standards in public schools.
1995 (2 years 8 months)
$200,000
To rationalize national voluntary content standards for student learning.
1995 ( 2 months)
$50,000
To support an independent panel to make recommendations about new standards for the teaching of American and world history in U.S. schools.
1994 (1 year)
$10,000
To prepare, publish, and distribute a paper describing the successful process through which Chicago established its Learning Outcome Standards for students and created a guide that can be used by teachers to construct curricula, lesson plans, and assessments aligned with these standards.
1994 (1 year)
$75,000
To support collaboration with the Milwaukee Public Schools to define content standards.
1993 (1 year)
$175,000
To support the Chicago Learning Outcome Standards Project, a joint effort of the Council for Basic Education, Chicago Public Schools, and the Chicago Teachers Union, to help teachers, schools, and the system as a whole change curricula and instruction.
1991 (1 year)
$12,000
To revise and complete a manuscript presenting recommendations for goals and standards of elementary education in the United States.
1987 (1 year)
$80,000
To prepare, with a plan for dissemination, a report on performance and learning standards for students graduating from elementary schools, ways of assessing performance and learning against those standards, and the implications for school curricula, organization, pedagogy, and testing.
