The conservative case for the Common Core

Chester E. Finn:

Writing last about the "war against the Common Core," I suggested that those English language arts and math standards arrived with four main assets. (In case you're disinclined to look, they boil down to rigor, voluntariness, portability, and comparability.)

Let me now revisit a fifth potential asset, which is also the main reason that small-government conservatives should favor the Common Core or other high-quality "national standards": This is the best path toward getting Uncle Sam and heavy-handed state governments to back off from micro-managing how schools are run and to return that authority to communities, individual schools, teachers, and parents.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at March 10, 2012 3:17 AM
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