Yesterday the usually correct Belling semi-endorsed "Common Core". He had reservations--mostly that the program was designed and enforced by Lefties.
His endorsement rested on "measurable" criteria--that is, that without "Common Core" there is no "national" basis for evaluating students and school systems.
Belling is wrong on two counts.
1) The Constitution does not award K-12 education responsibility to the Federal Gummint. That is reserved to the States. And there is no "national emergency" which allows for an over-ride of the Constitution.
2) College admissions are the best measure of K-12 achievement and accountability. Students from piss-poor districts will not be admitted to good schools (think Purdue, UW-Madistan, Yale, G'town, Marquette, etc.)
3) Both ACT and SAT are "measures" and are operative--but not "Federal". Surprise!! The private sector works.
'S OK, Mark. Eventually you'll learn that Statism under any guise is still Statism.
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Except, not everyone goes to college and takes the ACT/SAT, nor needs to attend university to be a well-educated, contributing member of society.
True. And they don't have to graduate from high school to be a contributing and (eventually) well-educated person, either.
What we do NOT need is another Bush-boggle, this time in education.
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