Why do we have academic standards in K-12?

Why do we have academic standards in K-12?

There seems to be much confusion about why we have academic standards at all.

Some folks want them because they want uniformity across schools. It doesn't matter whether the standards are low or high so long as they are the same for all kids.

The moral imagination in practical politics
Politics

The moral imagination in practical politics

Glen A. Sproviero

Conservatives often speak of the primacy of imagination in politics and culture, but its connection to policy is often shrouded in confusion.

What, then, is the imagination and why is it important to the public discourse?

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