The plans are the most radical proposals to emerge from an education secretary who has made no secret of his desire to return to an old -
fashioned standard of education, with core disciplines and higher standards being reintroduced at all levels.
Not exact matches
Consider, for example, that these changes in Quebec were rolled out in an extraordinarily cautious
fashion by the
standards of education reform.
The Obama administration's implicit support for states enacting Common Core, embedded through both Race to the Top and the No Child waiver gambit, is only the most - recent step in moving away from the patchwork
of standards and curricula (often developed by teachers on their own in slapdash
fashion) that has dominated American public
education for most
of the past two centuries.