This study critically examines the Wisconsin Standards for Social Studies elementary grades with goal of understanding what global content is present and how teachers can engage these standards through a critical perspective. We conducted textual analysis using Subedi’s decolonizing frameworks Andreotti’s citizenship education. found few explicit references to topics in early grades, identified...

The observation "the nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from" (Tanenbaum, 1981, p. 221) has been circulating in e-learning standards circles for some time. This statement certainly reflects the varied and complex nature of standards organizations and standards development processes. This paper provides an overview of standards and specifications bodies and processes ...

Widespread adoption of uniform standards is essential to the smooth operation of our modern global economy. When private organizations develop such standards, copyright protection of those standards often creates a conoict between private intellectual property rights and society’s need for standards. This conoict is especially apparent when a local or state government adopts a privately drafted...

Cooperation between and collaboration with partner organisations is a business requirement, which needs for its fulfillment a fast and easy exchange of information between the partners. Therefore interoperation between heterogeneous ICT systems is becoming a high priority requirement in such a global business enterprise environment. Numerous standards to support this interoperation have been or...

Despite new global standards for MiP prevention, Ugandan health advocates knew that outdated government policies were contributing to higher rates of MiP due to confusion and lack of coordination among health workers and women. A group of committed organizations, led by PATH, worked closely with the Ministry of Health (MOH) to improve efficiency and standards of care by forming a group to incre...

Kimberly Ann Elliott is a research fellow at the Institute for International Economics and has a joint appointment with the Center for Global Development. She served on the National Academies Committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards in 2002–03 and, in 1999, as chair of the Task Force on Civil Society of the State Department Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy. Her p...

The increasing competitive pressures from both global and domestic markets are forcing nations to adopt new trade practices and standards. Nations need to adjust to new methods of trade information exchange, open up their telecommunications systems and learn to take full advantage of harmonized procedures, standards, and practices for trade documentation. The role of electronic commerce and ele...

National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-0001, In 1959 the Director of the National Bureau of Standards declared “The emergence of science and technology as the paramount concern of the Nation in the 20 century . . . demanded the highest order of measurement competence, in order to provide the standards and measurement techniques on which maintenance of scientific ...