SK> ->    A decentralized school system is the cause of this "lack of
SK> -> vision" in teaching math and science, according to Schmidt,
SK> -> writes the magazine.  While national standards in math and
SK> -> science have been developed, they have been implemented in a
SK> -> "rather haphazard way," writes the magazine.  If more schools
SK> -> bought into the standards, classroom instruction would improve
    Arkansas adopted a single set of statewide standards when Clinton was 
governor, and it proved no recipe for improvement there.
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