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New Standards Search Tool

The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education is pleased to announce a new tool for searching standards, available at http://www.doe.mass.edu/frameworks/search/.

The new tool offers several new features that educators may find useful:

• Users can search by framework, strand, topic, and keyword.
• Users can search multiple frameworks and grade levels simultaneously.
• Users can view and print only the standards they need for a specific purpose.
• Users can view and save their search in several formats, including Microsoft Word, Excel, and Adobe PDF.

Here are a few ways that educators and parents might use the tool:

• A new teacher wants to see the standards she needs to teach for a high school biology course.
• A curriculum director wants to see the progression of standards from grade to grade for elementary mathematics.
• Two teachers want to create a unit together, so they want to see all of the English and history standards for tenth grade.
• A teacher just found a great book on whales, and he wants to see if it relates to the fifth grade curriculum standards.
• A parent wants to know what his third grade child will be learning next year.