A r c h i v e d  I n f o r m a t i o n

• A Letter From the Secretary

• An Invitation

  • Build on Existing Efforts
  • How GOALS 2000 Works

• Getting Started

  • Your Planning Panel
  • Asking Questions: How Well Are Students Learning?

• Ten Elements For Building Your Local Action Plan

  1. Teaching and Learning, Standards and Assessment
  2. Opportunity to Learn Standards or Strategies, and Program Improvement and Accountability
  3. Use of Technology
  4. Governance, Management, and Accountability
  5. Parent and Community Involvement
  6. Making Improvements System-wide
  7. Promoting Grassroots Efforts
  8. Dropout Prevention Strategies
  9. School-to-Work Programs
  10. Milestones and Timelines

• Partners For Reaching the National Education Goals

  • The Process
  • Communicating
  • A Partnership With Your State
  • Special Challenges -- Federal Help
  • The Improving America's Schools Act
  • School to Work
  • More Than the Sum of the Parts
  • More to Come: Borrowing From Others

• Benefits Down the Road

• Appendices

  • Elements of the State GOALS 2000 Action Plan
  • Help With Standards: Models and Projects
  • National Education Goals and Objectives

• Acknowledgments

• National Education Goals