Racial and ethnic divisiveness made the creation of statewide standards for history in Virginia a lengthy and controversial process. Now some educators are calling for national standards. Are we up to the challenge? And who sets the standards? Education professors Mary Bicouvaris of Christopher Newport University and Dwight Allen of Old Dominion University discuss how we determine what our kids should know.

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