As it turns out, in this transitional period, teachers like Bednarz are teaching one set of standards while being tested on another.
Atticus Finch is faced with jurors who have one set of standards for white people like the Ewells and another set for black folk like Tom Robinson.
Some online writers wonder how anyone could persuade even a fraction of the millions of bloggers to embrace one set of standards.
In recent months, the International Civil Aviation Organization, the aviation agency of the United Nations, approved one set of standards while the Obama administration began the process of writing its own last year.
"They're saying that if we have one set of standards, students will meet them," said Monty Neill, executive director of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing in Cambridge, Mass.
His response is to adopt one set of standards for respectable whites like Boo Radley and another for white trash like Bob Ewell.
He hopes, however, that the document will be a catalyst in the industry, creating one set of standards that can be widely agreed upon and adopted.
Newspaper journalism across Fleet Street may consist of the same activity – writing – but with titles pursuing such different agendas it is not obvious that this is one industry that can adhere to one set of standards.
"You don't say, 'When I'm in Boston, I have this one set of standards, and when I'm in Haiti or Rwanda I'm just going to lower the shit out of them,' " Dahl said.
