Missouri Education Watchdog: The Joke's On Us: 20 U.S.C. § 3403 : US Code - Section 3403: Relationship with States

Missouri Education Watchdog: The Joke's On Us: 20 U.S.C. § 3403 : US Code - Section 3403: Relationship with States:

The Joke's On Us: 20 U.S.C. § 3403 : US Code - Section 3403: Relationship with States

by stlgretchen

Neal McCluskey writes how the Federal Government seems to be directing testing in the Common Core consortia.  From Saying Common Core Not Federal a Joke, but Joke’s on Us:

Last week I posted video from an American Enterprise Institute conference featuring supporters of national curriculum standards—the Common Core—dismissing concerns that implementing the standards might cost lots of taxpayer arms and legs, and laughingly brushing aside concerns that the Common Core might lead to federal control of school curricula. The latter emanated largely from Chester “Checker” Finn, president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, whose organization is a leading national standards supporter.

Yesterday news came out that made clear just how serious—and unfunny—concerns about a federal takeover are. According to Education Week, the U.S. Department of Education will start a “technical review process” for the Department-selected consortia creating the national tests to go with the standards. And what will that review look at? Not compliance with accounting standards or something administrative, but test “item design and validation.” That means, most likely