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At the 1989 education summit, the President of the United States and most of the nation's governors for the first time articulated a set of education goals that included an explicit call for international competition, that American students should be "first in the world in mathematics and science achievement by the year 2000" (National Education Goals Panel, 1995:12~. In response, vigorous efforts have been initiated at the national level and within many states to define new content and performance standards in these and other subjects.
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Andrew Porter these circumstances might be interpreted as evidence that the education community in the United States has a fairly robust notion of what internationally competitive standards for students and schools might be, but such is not the case. Many of the national standards documents have provoked continuing vigorous discussion and disagreement.
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The purpose of the workshop was to bring together a variety of people, as both presenters and observers, who have thought creatively about bringing the idea of international competitiveness to school reform to share their perspectives and to discuss ways of keeping the process moving forward. (See Appendix A for the list of n~rticinnnt.~ ~ ran ran A The agenda of the 1-day workshop was structured around presentations that focused on different perspectives and on the emerging body of empirical evidence on internationally competitive standards.
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