On the recordJanuary 18, 1995
My answer to the Senator from New Mexico is that is a very good question, to which the answer is ``no.'' I sense that educational goals are likely to fall into two categories, one of which is more likely to be controversial than the other. Some of the standards in other areas--for mathematics, for example, or for the teaching of physics--will, I think, be very unlikely to be found controversial or be driven by ideology. In the case of a set of standards which come from a narrow perspective, a narrow political perspective, it is certainly possible that there will be future debates, as there ought to be. I think the future debates are more likely to be driven by public reaction to these standards than they are by the preferences of individual Members of the Senate. This Senator was made aware of the standards by the blizzard of criticism which they created almost from the day that this book was published.
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