Eclecticism: Reflections on literature, writing and life

Eclecticism: Reflections on literature, writing and life

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Do we really need official standards?
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Do we really need official standards?

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Terry Freedman
Sep 02, 2022
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Do we really need official standards?
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In one of the many back-to-school articles I’ve read recently, the author declares that teachers must make sure they know the Teachers’ Standards. However, the following objections occur to me:

Whose ‘Standards’?

What I mean by this is which country? I assume that each country has a different set of official standards, if they have such a thing at all. Th…

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