By Jack Curtis | American Thinker As education follows retail out of brick-and-mortar buildings onto the internet, consumers widening choices clearly threaten government’s control of what the public’s kids are taught and what they are not taught. Hence the current "Common Core" mandate, by which the federal government has enlisted the states to federalize the U.S. school curriculum, cutting off traditional local control. Once you control what is taught, you needn’t care where, by whom, or how that is done, you have eliminated all competitors. - Read More |