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The Department of Education, through its much-ballyhooed Race to the Top program, has taken the first steps toward coercing the states to adopt a set of national education standards known as the Common Core Standards.

Unfortunately, anxious to try new ways of improving unsatisfactory public schools, some “conservative” commentators have failed to grasp the coercive nature of what DOE is doing â€" and how it could ultimately lead to imposition of essentially a national curriculum, in violation of federal law.

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