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At the threshold to the twenty-first century, New Jersey finds itself struggling along with the rest of the nation to educate citizens who will be competitive in the international marketplace of the future. New Jersey also faces a particular constitutional challenge of implementing a state system of "Thorough and Efficient" public schools.

New Jersey wrestles with a paradox regarding the governance of public education. Ours is a state with a 120-year-old constitutional guarantee that regardless of residency, its children will receive a "Thorough and Efficient" education. Throughout this same time period, the State has evolved into approximately 600 independent school districts that exercise considerable "local control." Confronting the State, therefore, is the issue of how to ensure that all children receive a "T&E" education. This challenge is exacerbated by the fact that each district determines its own curriculum.

Core curriculum content standards are an attempt to define the meaning of "Thorough" in the context of the 1875 State constitutional guarantee that students would be educated within a Thorough and Efficient system of free public schools. They describe what all students should know and be able to do upon completion of a thirteen-year public education.

• Introduction
  • Acknowledgements
  • Members of the State Board of Education
  • The Need
  • Issues of Implementation
  • Conditions Facilitating the core curriculum Content Standards
  • Format and Organization
• Cross-Content Workplace Readiness
  • Standard 1: All students will develop career planning and workplace readiness skills.
  • Standard 2: All students will use technology, information and other tools.
  • Standard 3: All students will use critical thinking, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
  • Standard 4: All students will demonstrate self-management skills.
  • Standard 5: All students will apply safety principles.
• Visual and Performing Arts
  • Standard 1.1: All students will acquire knowledge and skills that increase aesthetic awareness in dance, music, theater, and visual arts.
  • Standard 1.2: All students will refine perceptual, intellectual, physical, and technical skills through creating dance, music, theater, and/or visual arts.
  • Standard 1.3: All students will utilize arts elements and arts media to produce artistic products and performances.
  • Standard 1.4: All students will demonstrate knowledge of the process of critique.
  • Standard 1.5: All students will identify the various historical, social, and cultural influences and traditions which have generated artistic accomplishments throughout the ages and which continue to shape contemporary arts.
  • Standard 1.6: All students will develop design skills for planning the form and function of space, structures, objects, sound, and events.Language Arts/Literacy
• Comprehensive Health and Physical Education
  • Standard 2.1: All Students Will Learn Health Promotion And Disease Prevention Concepts And Health- Enhancing Behaviors.
  • Standard 2.2: All Students Will Learn Health-Enhancing Personal, Interpersonal, And Life Skills.
  • Standard 2.3: All Students Will Learn The Physical, Mental, Emotional, And Social Effects Of The Use And Abuse Of Alcohol, Tobacco, And Other Drugs.
  • Standard 2.4: All Students Will Learn The Biological, Social, Cultural, And Psychological Aspects Of Human Sexuality And Family Life.
  • Standard 2.5: All Students Will Learn And Apply Movement Concepts And Skills That Foster Participation In Physical Activities Throughout Life.
  • Standard 2.6: All Students Will Learn And Apply Health-Related Fitness Concepts.
• Language And Arts Literacy
  • Standard 3.1: All Students Will Speak For A Variety Of Real Purposes And Audiences.
  • Standard 3.2: All Students Will Listen Actively In A Variety Of Situations To Information From A Variety Of Sources.
  • Standard 3.3: All Students Will Write In Clear, Concise, Organized Language That Varies In Content And Form For Different Audiences And Purposes.
  • Standard 3.4: All Students Will Read Various Materials And Texts With Comprehension And Critical Analysis.
  • Standard 3.5: All Students Will View, Understand, And Use Nontextual Visual Information.
• Mathematics
  • Standard 4.1: All Students Will Develop The Ability To Pose And Solve Mathematical Problems In Mathematics, Other Disciplines, And Everyday Experiences.
  • Standard 4.2: All Students Will Communicate Mathematically Through Written, Oral, Symbolic, And Visual Forms Of Expression.
  • Standard 4.3: All Students Will Connect Mathematics To Other Learning By Understanding The Interrelationships Of Mathematical Ideas And The Roles That Mathematics And Mathematical Modeling Play In Other Disciplines And In Life.
  • Standard 4.4: All Students Will Develop Reasoning Ability And Will Become Self-Reliant, Independent Mathematical Thinkers.
  • Standard 4.5: All Students Will Regularly And Routinely Use Calculators, Computers, Manipulatives, And Other Mathematical Tools To Enhance Mathematical Thinking, Understanding, And Power.
  • Standard 4.6: All Students Will Develop Number Sense And An Ability To Represent Numbers In A Variety Of Forms And Use Numbers In Diverse Situations.
  • Standard 4.7: All Students Will Develop Spatial Sense And An Ability To Use Geometric Properties And Relationships To Solve Problems In Mathematics And In Everyday Life.
  • Standard 4.8: All Students Will Understand, Select, And Apply Various Methods Of Performing Numerical Operations.
  • Standard 4.9: All Students Will Develop An Understanding Of And Will Use Measurement To Describe And Analyze Phenomena.
  • Standard 4.10: All Students Will Use A Variety Of Estimation Strategies And Recognize Situations In Which Estimation Is Appropriate.
  • Standard 4.11: All Students Will Develop An Understanding Of Patterns, Relationships, And Functions And Will Use Them To Represent And Explain Real-World Phenomena.
  • Standard 4.12: All Students Will Develop An Understanding Of Statistics And Probability And Will Use Them To Describe Sets Of Data, Model Situations, And Support Appropriate Inferences And Arguments.
  • Standard 4.13: All Students Will Develop An Understanding Of Algebraic Concepts And Processes And Will Use Them To Represent And Analyze Relationships Among Variable Quantities And To Solve Problems.
  • Standard 4.14: All Students Will Apply The Concepts And Methods Of Discrete Mathematics To Model And Explore A Variety Of Practical Situations.
  • Standard 4.15: All Students Will Develop An Understanding Of The Conceptual Building Blocks Of Calculus And Will Use Them To Model And Analyze Natural Phenomena.
  • Standard 4.16: All Students Will Demonstrate High Levels Of Mathematical Thought Through Experiences Which Extend Beyond Traditional Computation, Algebra, And Geometry.
• Science
  • Standard 5.1: All Students Will Learn To Identify Systems Of Interacting Components And Understand How Their Interactions Combine To Produce The Overall Behavior Of The System.
  • Standard 5.2: All Students Will Develop Problem-Solving, Decision-Making And Inquiry Skills, Reflected By Formulating Usable Questions And Hypotheses, Planning Experiments, Conducting Systematic Observations, Interpreting And Analyzing Data, Drawing Conclusions, And Communicating Results.
  • Standard 5.3: All Students Will Develop An Understanding Of How People Of Various Cultures Have Contributed To The Advancement Of Science And Technology, And How Major Discoveries And Events Have Advanced Science And Technology.
  • Standard 5.4: All Students Will Develop An Understanding Of Technology As An Application Of Scientific Principles.
  • Standard 5.5: All Students Will Integrate Mathematics As A Tool For Problem-Solving In Science, And As A Means Of Expressing And/Or Modeling Scientific Theories.
  • Standard 5.6: All Students Will Gain An Understanding Of The Structure, Characteristics, And Basic Needs Of Organisms.
  • Standard 5.7: All Students Will Investigate The Diversity Of Life.
  • Standard 5.8: All Students Will Gain An Understanding Of The Structure And Behavior Of Matter.
  • Standard 5.9: All Students Will Gain An Understanding Of Natural Laws As They Apply To Motion, Forces, And Energy Transformations.
  • Standard 5.10: All Students Will Gain An Understanding Of The Structure, Dynamics, And Geophysical Systems Of The Earth.
  • Standard 5.11: All Students Will Gain An Understanding Of The Origin, Evolution, And Structure Of The Universe.
  • Standard 5.12: All Students Will Develop An Understanding Of The Environment As A System Of Interdependent Components Affected By Human Activity And Natural Phenomena.
• Social Studies
  • Standard 6.1: All Students Will Learn Democratic Citizenship And How To Participate In The Constitutional System Of Government Of The United States.
  • Standard 6.2: All Students Will Learn Democratic Citizenship Through The Humanities, By Studying Literature, Art, History And Philosophy, And Related Fields.
  • Standard 6.3: All Students Will Acquire Historical Understanding Of Political And Diplomatic Ideas, Forces, And Institutions Throughout The History Of New Jersey, The United States, And The World.
  • Standard 6.4: All Students Will Acquire Historical Understanding Of Societal Ideas And Forces Throughout The History Of New Jersey, The United States, And The World.
  • Standard 6.5: All Students Will Acquire Historical Understanding Of Varying Cultures Throughout The History Of New Jersey, The United States, And The World.
  • Standard 6.6: All Students Will Acquire Historical Understanding Of Economic Forces, Ideas, And Institutions Throughout The History Of New Jersey, The United States, And The World.
  • Standard 6.7: All Students Will Acquire Geographical Understanding By Studying The World In Spatial Terms.
  • Standard 6.8: All Students Will Acquire Geographical Understanding By Studying Human Systems In Geography.
  • Standard 6.9: All Students Will Acquire Geographical Understanding By Studying The Environment And Society.
• World Languages
  • Standard 7.1: All Students Will Be Able To Communicate At A Basic Literacy Level In At Least One Language Other Than English.
  • Standard 7.2: All Students Will Be Able To Demonstrate An Understanding Of The Interrelationship Between Language And Culture For At Least One World Language In Addition To English.

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