Common Core Standards of education for all the states is not the magic solution it claims to be.

The federal Race to the Top program includes a plan to hire and fire principals and teachers on the basis of the students’ assessment scores. This has already begun to cause problems…

“If we accomplish one thing in the coming years it should be to eliminate the extreme variation in standards across America,” stated Education Secretary Arne Duncan. Does this mean uniform mediocrity?

Not another federal education program! The schools will need to jump through more hoops, but will the student actually learn more?

Common Core Standards or any nationally mandated, one-size-fits-all-states standards are a mistake for the country. Each state is to manage its own educational affairs according to the Tenth Amendment of the Bill of Rights. The Common Core standards are content-free and similar to the old WASL standards. What next? A national WASL test?