Caravel Undergraduate Research Journal
Abstract
Over the past two years, both the United States and United Kingdom have pursued radically different policy measures for eliminating educational performance disparities between traditionally high- and low-achieving student groups. In the US, such measures have consisted of recent changes to No Child Left Behind and the implementation of national learning standards. In the UK, measures have involved the establishment of new state-funded, non-profit “free schools” that are exempt from traditional state regulations. This paper examines and compares reforms in both countries. Whereas in both the US and UK educational jurisdiction appears to be increasingly concentrated within the national governments, the UK’s reforms allow for less regulation and greater curricula divergence.
Recommended Citation
Strickland, James and Johnson, Christofer
(2012)
"Learning Standards Developments,"
Caravel Undergraduate Research Journal: Vol. 1, Article 3.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/caravel/vol1/iss1/3