Growing headwinds for Common Core

I haven't been following the progress of PARCC....and I hadn't realized how central the idea of common assessments were to the Common Core undertaking, although I should have.  

Looks like things aren't going well on that front:

Yesterday, PARCC released the cost of its tests—and right on cue, another state, Georgia, dropped out of the testing consortia. This is a disaster.

At this point, I won’t be surprised if we end up with 20 or more different testing systems in 2014–15. So much for commonness, so much for comparability. Rigor and alignment with tough standards are likely the next to fall. 

That's how the consortia crumble

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Its not really that surprising. This is a social change, a defiance of top-down control over all aspects of society, we are simply recognizing the defiance of homogenization of the population in education in this setting, but these are all interconnected. Who knows better than parents and local communities what is better for our children?

True, we can have help from across the planet in teaching and raising our children, but to give up that right to educate our children to some distant whim of a career politician? Therein lies the failure in these collectivist efforts.