Holding some youngsters to high academic standards does not mean ignoring the rest. There are high, though different, standards for kids who want to get a job or enter a technical school and exams for these youngsters, too. AFT plans a companion report that will give specimen examinations and talk about what is expected of noncollege-bound students in other advanced industrialized countries. Goals 2000 offers us a chance to rethink our educational standards using the best ideas from successful systems abroad. But the most important thing we can learn from these systems is that standards alone are not enough.
Students have to be willing to do the hard work necessary to meet the standards.
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