Jay Greene, one of America's leading thinkers on K-12 education reform, explains that supporters of the Common Core State Standards Initiative, including the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, should admit their mistake in attempting to nationalize elementary and secondary education and refrain from dismissing responsible criticism of the Initiative as the work of unenlightened activists and a few misguided conservative think tanks.

http://jaypgreene.com/2013/05/30/the-end-of-the-beginning-for-common-core/