Not another education committee...

I had the pleasure of attending Fordham-Ohio’s conference on standards on Monday. We’ll post the video from the conference soon but I just wanted to highlight an issue raised in the panel titled, “Current Efforts to Create National Standards.”…[The] whole discussion illustrated for me the complexity of what we’re about to ask states to do. Most states already have in place a tiered diploma system. Virginia, for instance, has FIVE diplomas (in addition to the GED): the standard, advanced studies, modified standard, special, and general achievement diploma…Read it here.