currently so strong that it may well leave a number of listeners wondering why such an obviously needed and beneficial reform wasn''t undertaken a long time ago. But the fact is that the effort to establish educational standards has always been an uphill fight in this country. In light of these circumstances, it is useful to examine why Americans have so vigorously resisted educational standards over physics teaching the years. the history of such teaching resistance suggests that there are three factors in particular that have made standards such a hard sell: a commitment to local control of schools, a commitment to expansion of educational opportunity, and a commitment to form over substance physics teaching in the way we think about educational accomplishment. all three of these factors, which i treat below, can be traced in large part to our preference for one particular purpose of education:

welcome to the internets premier listing for all your educational needs. containing over 15,000 links to some of the best educational resources on the internet, the library in the sky guides teachers, students, teaching parents,librarians, and members of the community on their journeys through cyberspace. the library physics teaching was visited over 900,000 teaching times in 1999, and we anticipate well over 1 million physics visitors in 2000! the matter of setting standards for american education is certainly quite visible these days, but much of what we hear about it is not very enlightening. the talk is frequently filled with ideological heat rather than with critical light, and the tone of the discussion is more often nostalgic than realistic. in addition, the pitch in favor of standards is

it is often expensive to transport students to other towns, she said. several high school students are being educated outside the towns. a number of students requiring additional services recently moved into the district, increasing costs, derbyshire said. the special education budget currently has an $87,000 deficit, she said. that’s why i proposed the budget the way i did tonight. so we won’t have the same situation next year,” derbyshire said after the meeting. the proposal is still being developed. officials have to determine whether the program would be housed at alvirne high school in hudson or campbell high school. there may not be enough room at alvirne, derbyshire said. the school board teaching voted unanimously tuesday to throw out its provisional custody policy unless a court orders the policy restored. i think we did the right thing because this was getting out of hand," said school board member doug hillensbeck,

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