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National Review: Raising a real education standard
- 06-04-2010
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By Lindsey Burke and Jennifer Marshall/NPR
If the Obama administration has its way, change could be afoot for your local K–12 curriculum. Through its "Race to the Top" program, the administration is using federal grant money to coax states into adopting the "common core" standards developed by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers. In addition, while President Obama probably won't be able to push a reauthorization of No Child Left Behind through Congress before this session ends, the administration's "blueprint" for the law would cut off access to $14.5 billion in federal funding for states that fail to adopt these "common standards." Proponents claim that national standards would improve the American education system. They are wrong. Here's why. (more...)
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