Society today has to make some new choices for the students of tomorrow, choices that will carry them into the next millennium. Society can either "lower standards so that everybody "passes" in a way that looses all meaning in the real world" or " raise standards and then meet them" (Barber 479). I personally believe in raising our expectations and doing whatever is needed to meet them. Our countri

es standards are among the lowest in the world and " at the same moment as we are transferring our responsibilities to the shoulders of the next generation, we are blaming them for our own generation's most conspicuous failures" (Barber 472). Every election year the candidates use something about education as one of their platforms, but few ever carry through with them once they are elected. Most education bills die in congress in some shape or another and the ones that actually make it through congress, are usually ineffective because they have been changed and modified to the point of ineffectiveness.

The so-called higher learning facilities of today are selling students short when it comes to their education. Properly funding the education system and setting new standards for the future is an important part of education reform. Educatio

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