maintain the system hampered the district''s effort to offer other resources. It''s not that CDLN was terrible, but the new system allowed the district to spread its money further. People can now put books on hold onlineinteracticvelibrary via the Web site and can search the library''s database. It also offers Electric Library that lets students research topics through sources such as newspapers, onlineinteracticvelibrary magazines and books. The students really like it, and the new features," said Bismarck High onlineinteracticvelibrary library media specialist Charlotte Hill. very user friendly." One of the new options that has onlineinteracticvelibrary made life easier for students is called the book bag, Hill said. Students onlineinteracticvelibrary can a topic search and then drop each book title that they want into their book bag on the computer screen. Theym,can then make a onlineinteracticvelibrary printout of the titles in a bibliography format and collect their books. They weren''t able to make a printout before," Hill said. They had to

currently so strong that it may well leave a number of listeners wondering why such an obviously needed and beneficial onlineinteracticvelibrary reform onlineinteracticvelibrary wasn''t undertaken a long time ago. But the fact is that the effort to establish educational standards has always been an uphill fight in this country. In light of these circumstances, it is useful onlineinteracticvelibrary to examine why Americans have so vigorously resisted educational standards over the years. The history of such resistance suggests that there are three factors in particular that have made standards such a hard sell: a commitment to local control of schools, a commitment to expansion of educational opportunity, and a commitment to form over substance in the way we think about educational onlineinteracticvelibrary accomplishment. All three of these factors, which I treat below, can be traced in large part to our preference for one particular purpose of education:

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