National Standards

Another idea that has been derived from class (mainly the article “ First, Kill all the School Boards”) was the idea of putting all states on a national standard of education rather a state standard that varies by state. In the article the author states that each state has a different idea on where there students should be like South Carolina accepts a reading passing level in the 71st percentile while Wisconsin accepts in the 14th. Now that doesn’t make sense it seems that South Carolina doesn’t care their students aren’t proficient in reading. Now I agree that the circumstances might be different state to state and other states don’t know affairs in other states, but a national standard would fix all of this. The national standard has to be high or it won’t be effective (No child left behind). The only thing I can see so far standing in the way of this is the jobs presented by each state. Example, some of the more “smarter” jobs would be plentiful in a state such as Washington where as Tennessee (mainly Memphis) would not need as many of these kinds of workers so the standards would be low so there would be a plentiful supply of workers for more manual labor ( we have FedEx headquarters, most jobs here are warehouse jobs, our school system is horrible, you do the math).