Competition in the classroom is encouraged. High Academic Standards are clear, concise, and understandable. Non disciplined unstructured informal classroom environment. Academic standards are diluted, vague, confused, and very difficult to understand. Students are objectively tested on what they know.
Students pass or fail.
Students subjectively assessed on what they know, can do, and what they are like. Performance based testing. Standardized testing is not used. Classes are ungraded - letter grades are not used. All students eventually pass.