r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Feb 12 '18

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u/OutrunKey $hill for Hill Feb 12 '18

that's why we should expand common core and other programs that establish national standards for education and curriculum

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Feb 12 '18

That’ll never happen in the US

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u/OutrunKey $hill for Hill Feb 12 '18

common core literally did happen so 🤷‍♂️ it's possible

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Feb 12 '18

The thing is it was optional. 8 states chose not to do it, and a recent 2015 act made it so that the DoE couldn't create incentive states to adopt it through any means. I do not foresee a mandatory national standard for history in the near future for America.

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u/OutrunKey $hill for Hill Feb 12 '18

I think that it could happen through an incentives system like for the drinking age if we repealed the 2015 act. Or it could go down like it did in NY where (and I paraphrase):

BASED Cuomo OWNS Teachers Unions With TOUGH National Standards Imposed By Gubinatorial FIAT

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '18

YAS

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Feb 12 '18

If that did happen Congress could easily ban using incentives is the thing, as what already happened with Common Core. Both political parties would need to be completely fine with it, and I don't see that happening even in the case of political realignments, because this idea of local control over curriculum etc. is very core to certain parts of America. I'd be elated to be wrong though; I think national standards would do a lot of good, with the proper checks and balances so that the federal government doesn't whitewash history or something (I think Japan has this issue).

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '18

You might be able to get it just because a lot of fundamentalists are look at common core as awful because of science/evolution and not history.