1.   As educators strive to bring all children to high achievement standards, they are starting to create schools with widely divergent cultures, depending in part on demographics.

2.   Paul Bender, a deputy solicitor general, also argued that any achievement standard based on national norms was wrong.

3.   Rather than mandate what states do, however, Keegan sees her role as one in which she would free them up to increase student achievement standards.

4.   The fight now has to be about resources, not achievement standards.