Joy Pullman, research fellow at Heartland Institute, writes this awesome article exposing how the Common Core standards were created in a shroud of secrecy while states claim they were state-led. Our own Utah office of education didn’t even know who was on the writing committees for math and ELA standards until they were complete.

http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2013/06/07/five-people-wrote-state-led-common-core