Academic Standards and Skills
Learning goals in the Ford PAS curriculum are aligned to the following national academic standards and skills:
Standards for the English Language Arts
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and International Reading Association (IRA)
New Standards Performance Standards: English Language Arts
National Council on Education and the Economy (NCEE) and the University of Pittsburgh
Principles and Standards for School Mathematics
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
National Science Education Standards
National Research Council (NRC)
Curriculum Standards for Social Studies
National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)
National Council on Economic Education (NCEE)
National Standards for History
National Center for History in the Schools (NCHS)
National Standards for Business Education
National Business Education Association (NBEA)
Standards for Engineering Education
Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL)
National Educational Technology Standards
International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
Standards for Technological Literacy
International Technology Education Association (ITEA)
SCANS 2000
The Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills, U. S.
Department of Labor: Equipped for the Future
National Institute for Literacy (NIFL)
