The biggest problem with standards, whether they be by No Child Left Behind, or some state standard, is that these standards all too often are made by politicians, and not by people who know education. When politicians decide what your teacher will teach your child, no end to troubles follow.
the Texas Board of Education is the poster child for this damning reality. Check out this news report from Yahoo about their deliberations over state standards:
Texas ed board vote reflects far-right influences
Texas has the longest set of standards in the world, so far as I know. One in which one of the few teachers involved, Fort Worth Republican Pat Hardy, said in the article "What we've done is we've taken a document that by nature is too long to begin with and then we've lengthened it some more," Hardy said, "I just think we failed to keep that in mind, it's hard for teachers to get through it all."
Amen, sister. Hard to expect teachers to teach when the standards to be taught are too lengthy even to be read by the teacher who is supposed to be teaching it.
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