Supporters contend that standards will benefit public schools in many ways. Some benefits noted are that standards will:

· Communicate that all students can achieve at a higher level.

· Create a demand for new improved assessments.

Other supporters say that national standards will:

· Hold schools and teachers accountable.

· Bring national cohesion and uniformity to teacher training and student expectations therefore easing geographic mobility.

· Succeed at uplifting the poor and disadvantaged.

Two success stories of the standards movement that have been cited exist in Texa

This view of educational renewal would not be linear but dynamic. No longer will test results determine curriculum decisions or teacher strategy but would be a real measure of student learning and growth. We would break away from the one-size fits all trap. Standards, if created using AFT criteria, require that “they be designed to guide, not limit,” that they “include multiple performance levels (Gandal, 1995).” Using NCEST recommendations we would be holding schools, districts, and states accountable for learning, not just achieving on high-stakes tests. This is because the council asks that, “other assessments capable of producing results for individual students be combined with large scale sampling assessments (O’Neil, 1993).”

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These are just a few of many complaints pundits have of the standards movement. Others question the possibility of creating standards that apply equally to all students, a one size fits all approach, John O’Neil asks:

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