He states: "Starting school reform by first deciding what every
child should learn strikes most people as only common sense. But to
many American educators, it spells revolutionary change. The
standards strategy for school reform would give subject-matter
teachers and scholars, and the educated public, unprecedented power
to spur genuine change--change far deeper than questions of school
choice, methods, or management."
He goes on to give his opinion why the U.S. Dept. of Education's
national standards project failed, and how the ball has been passed
to the states and local school boards.
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libraries, a copy of the article is on the World Wide Web at
http://www2.TheAtlantic.com.
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