The federal government doesn t have lottery funds. So the prospects for this playing out nationally are not as bright as the idea. I think carrying out national standards is going to be a lot tougher than it sounds. They ve already worked on history standards and had a huge flap over that. To develop standards and not have them be weak and vague and ineffective is very difficult.
Parents know what a good product looks like.
We don t need assessment tools to show us that. We know that kids should be able to read by the time they re eight. We know that they should be able to do basic, substantial math by the time they re in eighth grade, things that he quoted. For the government to grant us that information or to do that for us is absurd. We need to go to our local school boards and get it done.