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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since the DoEd's inception, US school test scores have consistently declined.  Send the power back to the people.  Not a gov mandated curriculum.[/quote]

There is no curriculum mandated by the Federal Government. [/quote]

Ok.

NCLB.
Common Core (and don't give me "the Governors adopted it". If states didn't adopt the federal money was reduced or shut off).
PARCC (same as Common Core).
ESSA (see above).

Do they "set" curriculum? No. Do they force adoption of various initiatives that have set guidelines for curriculum? Yes.

Disclaimer: NCLB made sense to me as far as setting a floor. The problem came in the implementation and the various "stakeholders" that ended up developing the standards. They made it punitive. Same, sort of, with Common Core. As transient as society is it makes some sense to have some standardization across the states. The problem came with its adoption and the wholesale changes in methods, pedagogy and curriculum it had. That, and the ignoring of Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development and pushing concepts down to where most kids didn't have the cognitive maturity to understand them. As a teacher it looked like much of it was designed for the top 10% of students instead of the 70% of average students.[/quote]

ESSA was passed in 2015, almost 10 years ago and removed all of your complaints about federal mandates.

https://www.understood.org/en/articles/the-difference-between-the-every-student-succeeds-act-and-no-child-left-behind[/quote]

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