For those uninitiated to the Common Core State Standards, this New York Times article raises some important questions:
"By definition, America has never had a national education policy; this has indeed contributed to our country’s ambivalence on the subject... The anxiety that drives this criticism comes from the fact that a radical curriculum — one that has the potential to affect more than 50 million children and their parents — was introduced with hardly any public discussion. Americans know more about the events in Benghazi than they do about the Common Core."