The National Learning Standards

June 2007 • Volume 6 • Issue 2 

There is a stirring among key education leaders and influential politicians in Washington, D.C., about the need for a complete set of national academic standards that apply to all public school children in the United States.

The very thought strikes dread into the hearts of school board members and superintendents. At present, state governments establish the knowledge bar that students must hurdle, and then local officials develop the curriculum to reach that goal.