Academic Standards

Joan Z. Spade

Setting high academic standards is a key component in the drive to achieve educational equality today. However, academic standards cannot be separated from the environments in which they exist—in classrooms, schools, districts, and states and nationwide. One important factor in the call for academic standards is political pressure related to the position of the United States in the global society as well as the need to strengthen what the 1983 report A Nation at Risk called “the intellectual, moral, and spiritual strengths of our people which knit together the very fabric of our society.” A review of the recent history of academic standards reforms is important in understanding how this movement relates to Among ...

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