The Uses and Misuses of Opportunity-to-Learn Standards

Do OTL standards have the potential for helping to solve the problem of providing equality of educational opportunity to all students, or are OTL standards simply a strategy for derailing recent efforts to move educational accountability away from its old focus on inputs and processes and toward a new focus on accountability in terms of educational outcomes? Are OTL standards simply one more strategy by professional educators to get more federal, state, and local money pumped into the K-12 education system? Will OTL standards represent another step, along with such ideas as a national curriculum and a national student