Less than two months after the nation’s governors and state school chiefs released their final recommendations for national education standards, 27 states have adopted them and about a dozen more are expected to do so in the next two weeks....
Second graders, for example, should be able to read two-syllable words with long vowels...
link: States Embrace National Standards for Schools - NYTimes.com
Surely I must have some kind of memory fault. I keep remembering we used to look down on those totalitarian countries and their regimented schools. Communist China, for example. Or the Soviet Union. I must be just imagining that.
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