During a recent panel discussion on the program, former Massachusetts Education Sec. Paul Reville criticized those who prefer local educational oversight as opposed to a one-size-fits-all federal mandate.“To be sure,” he said, “there’s always a small voice … of people who were never in favor of standards in the first place and never wanted to have any kind of testing or accountability and those voices get amplified.”
He mocked the “fringe voices about federalism and states’ rights,” disparaging what he calls a “tiny minority” that believe Washington, D.C. should not be the origin of every child’s education.
In a forced defense of his position, Reville said “the children belong to all of us”; therefore, they should all receive the same cookie-cutter education. Of course, the obvious benefit for the radial partisans who support Common Core is that all children will be subjected to the blatant ...
