The Push for National Standards

According to the Christian Science Monitor, 47 states now support drafting national education standards. According to Michael Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, however,

there's still a lot of peril on the road," he says. While state leaders are eager to collaborate, "not a single state has promised to adopt the standards."

And later the article states,

Though powerful people – including President Obama – are promoting the idea, it is by no means a done deal. Once the standards are open to public comment, "make no mistake about it, there will be controversy," says Tom Loveless, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington. Old debates about the best ways to teach math and reading – think phonics versus whole-language – could be reignited.

Read the entire article here.