What should the standards be for education? Should they be different for people with different learning abilities? Different for different state requirements? Alternatively, should there be the same standards for the whole country? These are just some of the many questions that many ask when deciding or arguing the point of the education standards being to high or not high enough. To answer one question, this is something that is decided by the state government. Each state can decide on what they believe should be the standards for students to graduate high school and what they need to get ready to go into the real world.
What has been done in pass years? There has been a lot of talk on what should be done. If the standards should be lowered or not, or if it should be different for different type of people (such as students with learning disabilities). It is up to the people of the state to decide to help change the standards to what they believe is adequate.
Many are affected in such a decision on the standards of education. The students who are not as capable to learn as maybe the ones who realized they had to do good in school from an early age. The whole society is actually effected by these standards. If standards are too low, students could graduate not knowing how to read, which will hinder their career, and could mess up the economics of society. However, if the standards are too high, that could put to much pressure on a student and cause one to drop out or not graduate. This would cause the dropout rate to increase or cause a smaller graduating class. So the question is, "How do we decide what the standards should be for graduation?".
Lets compare two states. One whose standards is not that high and one whose standards many believe are very to high. New York is now going to make it a requirement to get a regent's diploma. This is when one has to take state regents exams and must pass them with a score of at least a 65 in order to graduate.