He's watching the Common Core State Standards «very closely,» warning that if the feds get involved in «putting in a de
facto national curriculum,» his «caucus will rebel.»
Once the federal government coerces states to adopt a set of standards, as it has already done without Fordham's objection, and once states are compelled to adopt a particular set of assessments, as Fordham proposes the federal government should do, then we have a de
facto national curriculum regardless of whatever else is done.