Common Core State Standards Initiative

http://boston.com/community/blogs/rock_the_schoolhouse/2012/03/national_education_standards_a.html Published on April 1, 1857, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade was Herman Melville’s last novel and one in which he coined a new term for American hucksters. Melville’s satirical tale has some relevance for better understanding the drive for national education standards,...

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=21689 Federal leadership on education reform has yielded disappointing results throughout the last several presidential administrations.  The 1994 “Goals 2000: Educate America Act” failed to achieve its objectives, No Child Left Behind (NCLB) has become the subject of much criticism and its...