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A DREAM DEFERRED
Carnegie Senior Fellow Tom Toch writes in the March issue of Kappan Magazine: NCLB was a necessary if insufficient step towards the high common education standards of advanced industrialized nations that we’ve sought to reach. The problem with NCLB isn’t that it requires states and local school systems to set standards. The problem is that NCLB unintentionally encouraged states and districts to set low and, thus, not very meaningful standards. The new and more demanding Common Core State Standards and the development of new, voluntary national tests may help push the public education system towards the higher standards that the nation has sought for three decades. (Note: This piece reflects Toch's personal perspective.)
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