With What Are We Left... Or Is It Right?

The OBE debate has raised four issues that are crucial for contemporary education policy:

• how to judge quality In education,

• how to define outcomes,

• the Aquarian fallacy on the left, and

• the nostalgist fallacy on the right.

Fortunately, despite the complexity of the issue, there is a policy strategy that can support establishment of legitimate academic standards while avoiding the pitfalls of transformational OBE. After discussing the issues that currently impede a solution, I will outline this approach.