During her 18 - month tenure, she pushed for the development of voluntary national standards for all students. (newrepublic.com)
These critics ask us to leave public schools alone apart from creating voluntary national standards — speed zones without traffic tickets, as it were. (wacharterschools.org)
To promote this view, the U.S. Department of Education made awards in 1991 and 1992 to broad - based groups of scholars and teachers who would develop voluntary national standards in science, history, the arts, civics, geography, foreign languages, and English language arts. (ciera.org)