Lower, But Unified, Worth It?

There has been a new "breakthrough" with the education programs. All states but Alaska and Texas have agreed to a new unified curriculum that has specific requirements each year from kindergarten to senior year of high school. While unification is a step forward, and will be easier to manage and regulate in the lower end school districts. This program, once again, seems to lower the standards for learning in each grade level. This seems like a continuation of the "no child left behind" acts which tried to unify the education levels for each child. This will never, and can never happen. There will always be children with disabilities, or who have trouble learning, or merely dont want to. And I don't think that that should hold the motivated and smart kids back. Because, in reality, it will be the tops of the classes that will be leading the world when our generation is middle aged. And taking away from their education by not challenging them, by not challenging the teachers will only harm us.

“Many states have too many expectations in their academic standards that force teachers to cover too much in a superficial way,

So, this sounds like, instead of finding a way to help teachers better cover the material and to provide a higher education for the students, we are once again, merely lowering the standards.