Internet-based educational framework for the correlation of lessons, resources and assessments to state standards

An apparatus for assisting educators in selecting achievement tools for use in the education of students to meet an applicable one of a plurality of sets of educational standards comprising:

• a first table holding a plurality of educational standards defined by discrete jurisdictions to apply to educational processes within those jurisdictions and a plurality of keywords, at least selected ones of the keywords being linked to selected ones of the educational standards, wherein the educational standards of one jurisdiction have similarities to the educational standards of a different jurisdiction and the keywords for such similar educational standards are the same;
• a second table holding a plurality of achievement tools selected from the group consisting of lesson plans, assessments and resources and more than one of them and a plurality of keywords, at least selected ones of the keywords being linked to selected ones of the achievement tools;
• wherein at least some keywords in the tables include grade level indicators;
• and
• a table manipulator program adapted to permit an educator to select an educational standard and to provide to the educator a set of achievement tools applicable to the selected educational standard by having a matching of keywords linked to the achievement tools to keywords linked to the educational standards;
• wherein the first table, second table and table manipulator program are provided to educators over the Internet using a website in which a user interface enables a user to log in with a unique identifier indicating an affiliation with one of the jurisdictions and filtering so that the user is provided only educational standards pertinent to that jurisdiction.