Federal Role Touchy in Standards Push
Memo to Congress and the U.S. Department of Education: Stay out of the common-standards business.
That was the message at a recent Education Commission of the States session from Gov. Phil Bredesen, whose state has signed on to the common-standards effort—and was a winner in the Race to the Top competition, in which common standards...
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