The effectiveness of standards as a vehicle for educational reform is negotiable as some educators and administrators believe they are the answer and some still think they are the problem.

Education must evolve just as the rest of society progresses with increases in quality of life and advancements in technology. As the United States is experiencing a standards driven reform movement, the prior forms of documentation and subjective grading need to be modified to a more modern and applicable method. Standards are not the way of the future; they are the way of modern day education. The assessment of standards must be just as objective, consistent and modern as the society in which they pervade.

Commentary on the topic of educational decline in America.