Advocates of standards argue that these kinds of moves will strip the standards movement of its very essence.
We chose to only examine passive ABD, ER, IR and HBB as these are the standard movements for diagnosis of shoulder capsulitis and may also be used over time to monitor progression [ 34, 35].
During a discussion of the standards movement among American Federation of Teachers delegates here, several teachers described how these problems played out locally.
Similarly, the standards movement that inaugurated this era of bipartisanship on education a decade ago was originally seen as something for everybody -- all students pushed to higher levels.
The nationwide poll of 1,019 teachers and the study, which were commissioned by the journal Education Week with a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts, paint a portrait of the standards movement as a work in progress in which the testing component must be brought into relief.
The trajectory of the standards movement in American early childhood education and development roughly parallels that in primary and secondary education.
"From personal experience, any education reform is difficult, but sustaining reform over any period of time is really difficult," Riley -- a key architect of the standards movement -- recently told a room full of educators and community leaders.
Teach for America has gained momentum in the last few years, as the standards movement and a shortage of highly trained teachers has put pressure on school districts to look beyond traditional teacher-training programs for new teachers.
Taken as a group, they expose the dirty little secret of the standards movement sweeping the country: schools may be demanding more of students, but they still aren't demanding much.
"There is no such thing as test preparation," as Diane Ravitch, one of the chief intellectual authors of the standards movement, said to me.
Best known in education circles for raising the level of the academic standards movement, Mr. Gerstner has chosen a pre-eminent panel of educators, corporate chiefs and politicians to take on the teacher puzzle with him.
