| | No Child Left Behind: NCLB Application - State Activities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16) |
 | | Provide evidence that the State has adopted challenging academic content standards in science that meet the requirements of section 1111(b)(1) or, if these standards have yet to be adopted, submit a timeline for their development and submit evidence when it is available, but no later than May 2005. |
 | | The states of Connecticut, Maryland, New York, New Hampshire and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico participate in the East Atlantic/Caribbean Consortium. |
 | | Testing will ultimately illustrate a student's progress towards challenging state content standards which will be assessed in various ways from course completion, independent study, community service or work experience to extracurricular activities and teacher observation of student performance. |
| www.pde.state.pa.us /nclb/cwp/view.asp?A=3&Q=78305&pp=3 (8613 words) |