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Barth, Patte – American School Board Journal, 1998
Virginia Standards of Learning will not work for excellence or for equity. First, the big ideas of the disciplines get lost in the specificity; second, the rigidity in requiring students to meet standards at each grade level does not offer flexibility to schools and teachers to adapt time and instructional methods. Well-defined standards should be…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, Standardized Tests
