The House Education and Labor Committee held a hearing on common national standards earlier this week. EdWeek’s Alyson Klein was there.
Key state officials, congressional leaders, and the president of the one of the national teachers’ unions all agreed [at the hearing] that the United States needs to move toward common academic standards to stay competitive in an increasingly globalized economy—and that states must be the vehicle for the change. What was not as clear is what the federal role should be in adding momentum to the effort already under way in about 40 states to move toward a set of standards that is more uniform and rigorous.
“We’re placing a very big bet on the states,” Klein quotes committee chair George Miller as saying. “My sense is that we’re placing the bet in the right place to get this done.”
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