This Week at Pioneer › The Road to a National Curriculum

The Obama administration has used the Race to the Top Fund, the Race to the Top Assessment Program, and the NCLB conditional waiver program to push states to adopt the same standards and assessments, despite three federal laws barring federal departments or agencies from directing, supervising or controlling K-12 curricula and instruction.

This is the alarming conclusion of a new report authored by Robert S. Eitel and Kent D. Talbert, former United States Department of Education counsels general, with contributions from Bill Evers, research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and member of the Koret Task Force on K-12 Education. The Road to a National Curriculum: The Legal Aspects of the Common Core Standards, Race to the Top, and Conditional Waivers is sponsored by Pioneer Institute, the Federalist Society*, the American Principles Project, and the Pacific Research Institute of California. Read the press release here.

*Subject to final approval by the President of the Federalist Society.