“The lesson most people would take from the No Child Left Behind experiment is that a top-down, heavy-handed approach to improving america’s K–12 system doesn’t work. It also isn’t consistent with the concept of federalism where the states are supposed to be laboratories of experiment. But controllists are so committed to their agenda that they’re willing to ignore history and double down on their approach. The problem, they say, is that state tests are too easily manipulated. Their convenient answer is a nationalized, one-size-fits-all set of learning standards that will keep states from cutting corners and playing games with our kids’ education.Now these same people are pushing the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSI), a collection of new learning standards that tells schools in virtually every state which concepts to teach kids, grade by grade. The controllists tell us these standards are better and more “rigorous” than the ones states are currently using and will lead to a world-class education for our kids.”
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