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Arizona Academic Standards & Accountability

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Standards and learning outcomes are given for all content areas at this resource. In addition, instructional guides, performance standards, results and sample AIMS (Arizona Instrument to Measure Standards) tests are included.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: A Closer Look: Closing the Performance Gap

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The performance gap - what students are expected to do versus what they can do - is compounded each year a child falls short of acquiring expected skills. As a result, underachieving high school students are at great risk for academic...
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Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech: Time Management, Study Skills

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Virginia Tech University contains a link to "time management strategies for improving academic performance". By clicking on this link, a step by step course in managing time better will show up. A very interesting site...
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Assessment Products for Special Education

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Let's Go Learn, Inc. provides research-based and expert-developed diagnostic testing and instruction programs to improve student performance in reading. The products for students with special needs include reading assessments and...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Accommodating Students With Dyslexia [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This five page PDF resource guide provides great information on accommodating students who have dyslexia in all classroom settings. Accommodations on materials, instruction, and student performance are included.
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Great!schools.org: First Grade Learning Games and Activities

For Teachers K - 1st
These games and activities will help your first grader master important academic skills while having fun.
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US Department of Education

Nces: The Nation's Report Card (Naep)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The Nation's Report Card, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), is the only nationally representative and continuing assessment of what America's students know and can do in various subject areas. Since 1969,...
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American Educational Research Association (Aera)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learn more about the correlation between educational research and your classroom. "The American Educational Research Association is concerned with improving the educational process by encouraging scholarly inquiry related to education...
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Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)

Educational Leadership: Art and Science of Teaching /Cognitive Verbs and Cc

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) present a new mandate and challenge for K-12 educators-teaching and reinforcing cognitive verbs. These verbs, referred to as academic vocabulary, signal the type of mental operations that students...
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Texas A&M University

Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: College Algebra: Operations With Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn how to perform operations with functions via viewing problems and step-by-step solutions and completing several practice problems and checking your work.
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Texas A&M University

Wtamu Virtual Math Lab: Beginning Algebra: Multiplying and Dividing Real Numbers

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A good refresher on multiplication and division of real numbers. Covers finding the reciprocal and performing multiplication with positive and negative numbers and zero.
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Society for History in the Federal Government

For Students 9th - 10th
Official website is a resource that draws from and highlights a rich mix of federal history work performed by public, academic, and private historians, as well as archivists, curators, documentary editors, preservationists,...
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Authentic Assessment Resources

For Teachers 9th - 10th
You have just hit the jackpot for authentic assessment resources for professional development for teachers. Teachers will benefit from this comprehensive list of resources.
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US Department of Education

Helping Your Child Become a Responsible Citizen [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Helping a child become responsible isn't always an easy process. This comprehensive site is directed towards parents (and can be easily adapted for educators) who would like to teach their children to become responsible citizens.
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Insightful Interaction: Visualizations

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of interactive visualizations that were produced through analysis of economic, political, and market research data. Topics are diverse, e.g., military spending and trade, immigration, consumer spending, crime, unemployment,...