gdf's sandbox: ccssi

CCSSI is the Common Core State Standards Initiative, a redesign of US math and reading educational standards developed and supported by most states. The CCSSI standards were published in Summer 2010 and 34 states have already committed to adopting them, in some cases within a year or two. The standards can be viewed at http://www.corestandards.org.

Applications that reference educational standards need a database of the standards and some mechanism to search them according to criteria like grade, subject, and/or topic. The submitted "ccssi" module provides this functionality for Drupal applications.

The "ccssi" module will include a self-contained database of the CCSSI standards, an API for accessing the data, a means whereby additional standards can be created on a state-by-state basis, which the CCSSI guidelines allow for, and one or more tools for exporting all or part of the standards database for external use.

There is no other Drupal module that accomplishes these tasks. In fact, the self-contained electronic database that was created for the module is the first of its kind, and a number of other developers have already requested copies of it for other (non-Drupal) purposes.