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标题：National Standards: Are They Up To Standard?
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作者：JOHN CLARK
期刊名称：NZ Journal of Teachers' Work
印刷版ISSN：1176-6662
出版年度：2010
卷号：07
期号：01
出版社：Massey University
摘要：The National Standards, one for Reading/Writing (Ministry of Education, 2009a) and the other for Mathematics (Ministry of Education, 2009b), were released in late October 2009 with much fanfare. They were launched by the Prime Minister with the Minister of Education in attendance, although the teacher unions and principals¡¯ organisations boycotted the event. It is fair to say that as a policy initiative of the new National-led coalition government, the National Standards have not received the professional support the politicians might have expected. This is due, in part, to concern about the conceptual base of and justification for National Standards. There appears to be much muddled thinking (or no thinking at all) by those who framed the policy about some fundamental aspects, particularly the underlying philosophical assumptions and problems which need to be exposed in order to reach an informed view on whether the National Standards are really up to standard.