Common Core Standards Myth Buster: Federal Takeover?

"That 46 headed beast (well, 45 1/2) that is the Common Core is all over the news these days, due in large part to a single, irrepressible talking point: the alleged federal takeover of American schools. Politicians and a few media-members-gone-berserk are mostly to blame for this, having filled the American imagination with pablum, invoking images of storm troopers busting down grade school doors, indoctrinating children in little socialist hatcheries and collecting blood..."

http://www.schoolimprovement.com/common-core-360/blog/common-core-standards-myth-buster-1/