States lower bar on proficiency standards

Career Education: Parents contend that to privatize education and extirpate national standards for students will facilitate their children’s academic success, adding that low government curricular benchmarks perpetuate apathy among both students and faculty – to date, only a handful of states have set proficiency standards on par with the National Assessment of Educational Progress, often termed the “Nation’s Report Card.”

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