Source Note 13

Title: Moving Towards National Standards

Summary: Because states are allowed to choose their own standards in the current No Child Left Behind act, states with higher standards fare poorly compared to states with low standards.  This demonstrates the necessity for national standards.

Topic: Should President Obama reform the No Child Left Behind law?
Category: Citizen: Commentator (Blog)

What is it? An article in TakePart Social Action Network blog, which is a collective blog that focuses on a variety of issues.
Publication Information: TakePart Social Action Network blog, published March 7, 2009
Author: Melanie Smollin
Location: http://www.takepart.com/blog/2009/03/07/moving-towards-national-standards/
Accessed: 3/11/09

Support:
Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan talks about the Obama Administration’s priorities. American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten talks about the need to reform national standards. David Hoff of Education Week is a blogger that talks about the need for national standards, rather than state standards.

Audience and Agenda:
This article is intended to inform the public about No Child Left behind and the problems that are associated with it.  It is on a blog that shows social changes.

Usefulness:
This article gave a useful description about how when states set their own standards, the ones that set them too high fail and the need for a national standard.  There were also many useful links.  

Works cited:
http://www.takepart.com/blog/about-this-blog/
http://www.edweek.org/ew/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arne_Duncan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randi_Weingarten
http://www.edweek.org/ew/contributors/david.hoff.html

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