It has to be implemented in incremental pieces for it to work. The new standards will also undermine the efforts of many states and school districts that have worked for years with policy makers, educators, and business leaders to develop their current assessment programs. National PTA supports nationally agreed-upon voluntary education standards if they are derived by consensus at the state and local levels. It is the role of the federal government to assist state and local levels through researching better assessment models, collecting data, reporting information based on a set of indicators, and involving parents in this process. Furthermore, National PTA believes that valid assessment does not consist of only a single test score, and that at no time should a single test be considered the sole determinant of a student's academic or work future, including high school graduation, scholarship aid, honors programs, or college admissions.
Tests are only one facet of a sound assessment program.
However, the FTC acknowledges that the music recording industry, unlike the motion picture and electronic game industries, has not visibly responded to the commission's report. Further, at least three-quarters of the official movie websites reviewed included the film's rating, the reasons for the rating, and links to sites where information on the rating system may be obtained. However, ads for R-rated movies continue to appear on television programs most popular with teens, and the rating reasons in ads were usually small, fleeting, or inconspicuously placed. In the music industry, advertising for explicit-content labeled music recordings routinely appeared on popular teen advertising programming. Furthermore, ads for explicit-content labeled music usually did not indicate that the recording had a parental advisory label.