From the July 3, 1996 Daily Report Card:
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GP>*4   BUSINESS LEADERS:  A GUIDE FOR SETTING ACADEMIC STANDARDS
GP>     The Business Roundtable's latest publication is a report on
GP>standards, "The Business Leader's Guide to Setting Academic
GP>Standards."  Norman Augustine, president and chief executive
GP>officer of Lockheed Martin Corporation, writes in the report's
GP>forward that the "first step to solving our nation's education
GP>problems is to substantially raise academic standards and verify
GP>achievement through rigorous testing."   Augustine also serves as
GP>chairman of the Education Task Force for The Business Roundtable.
GP>     The report defines key terms and presents the history and
GP>debate over standards-setting, provides mini-case studies of ways
GP>in which business leaders have contributed to standard setting
GP>and a list of resource materials and contacts.  Examples of
GP>standards set in particular states, including Vt., Colo, and Ky.,
GP>and Md. also are contained in the report.
GP>     The Business Roundtable also developed six options for
GP>business involvement in standards setting:  "outline the academic
GP>skills and knowledge that students will need to thrive in today's
GP>economy," noting that Texas and Fort Worth included workplace
GP>skills into academic standards; "insist that new standards be
GP>tied to an effective assessment system;" "help write academic
GP>standards in collaboration with educators," noting the process in
GP>Dela. and Va.; read and critique the academic standards being
GP>developed by your state;" "benchmark the standards so they are as
GP>high -- if not higher than those of other nations, and update the
GP>standards regularly to keep pace with competing nations," noting
GP>examples in Dela. and Ga.; and "support efforts to involve the
GP>public in standards-setting and to seek public approval of the
GP>standards."
GP>     The report concludes that "the transformation of standards
GP>from rhetoric to reality does not occur by decree from above."
GP>It holds that parents, educators and students must "adopt, adapt
GP>and take ownership of their standards, and they must believe them
GP>to be worth striving for."
GP>     Copies of this report are available by sending a fax to The
GP>Business Roundtable at 202/466-3509.
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