And it must be the state legislature which makes it possible for every district to recruit and retain more teachers and other vital school staff by taking some of the extra duties off of their plates. 

While state law requires that standards undergo a rigorous review process that involve content-matter experts, this process has not always been carried out with transparency,

As education writer and teacher Peter Greene has often pointed out, much of the learning loss panic traffics in the fallacy that correlation automatically implies causation.