Standards Reform for Teachers in the Schools

While the United States has not always had nationalized standards, they are an integral part of the process and aim to increasing the value of education. The writer believes that the concept is sound but has been exploited by all those involved leaving the average teacher powerless to initiate positive change that is not dictated by them. Ultimately, this limits the power of the classroom teacher and questions the integrity of the classroom.

As the nation has been expanding in terms of population, economic prowess and industrial design since the nationalization of education over the past century, the need for proper and current education is of highest priority. “The standards movement has its roots in the struggle for equal educational opportunity and the increasing reliance on state funding and constitutional authority for operating public education” (McClure, 2005). Now that the country has evolved to meet the needs of adequate budgetary funding to maintain and improve education, standards must be used for more that grading schools on a national, state and local level.

With the evolution and implementation of President Obama’s Merit Pay system, teachers will hopefully be given more of a say in the standards as they are the one’s who inevitably enforce them. Education needs to be completely restructured from the top down and if we all work together, we will once again be a pillar to the world.

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