The nation is once again rushing to establish new and improved academic standards. However, unresolved issues remain from the previous wave of standards reform in the 1980s and 1990s. In particular, the California standards-based reforms for historysocial science over the past 25 years should provide a cautionary tale for those advocating new standardsbased reforms.
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