‘Common Standards’ Come Up at High School Hearing
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‘Common Standards’ Come Up at High School Hearing

By Mary Ann Zehr — May 13, 2009 1 min read
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Talk about “common standards” continues to pop up all over town here in the nation’s capital. Vicki Phillips, who heads up the education division for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, testified about what she thinks those standards should look like at a hearing of the House Education and Labor Committee yesterday, GothamSchools reports.

U.S. Rep George Miller, D-Calif., the chairman of the committee, emphasized the need for the nation to address the high school dropout crisis at the hearing.

Mary Ann Zehr
Mary Ann Zehr was an assistant editor for Education Week. Her beats included English-language learners, bilingual education, immigrants, dropouts, achievement-gap issues, and charter and private schools. She is the author of the blog Learning the Language.

A version of this news article first appeared in the Curriculum Matters blog.