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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] USA Today calls for national standards
Editorial: NCLB reauthorization should include national standards. USA Today (10/31, page 10A) editorialized that while "basic competencies transcend state lines, you wouldn't know it from the nation's existing patchwork of education standards." The lack of national standards "hampers the federal No Child Left Behind law, which demands that all children perform at grade level by the year 2014." Now, "30 states are cooperating on setting similar graduation standards, and 13 have settled on a common Algebra II curriculum and test. With a little pressure from parents and educators, there's no good reason those numbers couldn't reach 50." George Sheridan
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