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Here is Fordham Foundation's PR for its reports, one on state standards and one on its scheme for national tests - 4 routes to this goal In addition to Fordham staff (including Finn and Petrilli), the report's author lists includes "with" - Cynthia Brown, Michael Cohen, Robert Gordon, Frederick M. Hess, Gene Hickok, Sandy Kress, James Peyser, Diane Ravitch, Andrew Rotherham, Suzanne Tacheny, Bob Wise - Note that Brown is with the Center on American Progress while Wise heads the Alliance for Excellent Education - the rest are the very much the crew that brought us that notable policy success, NCLB - folks like Kress, Rotherham, Cohen and Hickok - of course a mix of Dems and Republicans. Poor state standards? Go national! Two-thirds of schoolchildren in America will return to class in coming weeks in states with mediocre (or worse) expectations for what their students should learn. That's just one of the findings of Fordham's The State of State Standards 2006, a new report which evaluates state academic standards. When the average state grade is a "C-minus"--the same as six years earlier, even though most states revised their standards since 2000--what is to be done? Go national. Another new report from Fordham, To Dream the Impossible Dream: Four Approaches to National Standards and Tests for America's Schools, brings together education policy leaders from across the political spectrum to flesh out and evaluate several forms that national standards and testing could take. "Big modern countries need big modern standards," said Fordham president Checker Finn. "In America, however, we've left standards setting to the states and most of them have bungled the job." - pdf of the scheme for national tests is at http://www.edexcellence.net/doc/National%20Standards%20Final%20PDF.pdf if the link above does not work. Monty Neill, Ed.D. Executive Director FairTest 342 Broadway Cambridge, MA 02139 617-864-4810 fax 617-497-2224 monty@fairtest.org http://www.fairtest.org Donate: https://secure.entango.com/servlet/donate/MnrXjT8MQqk
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