[Hulka]

“And the military is run by top-down control, now isn’t it? “

Apples and oranges, and clearly you have no idea about the military and their approach to education and training, let alone strategy and doctrine development and operational practices.

Ever hear of “Centralized control - decentralized execution?”

I bet not.

Centralized control means leadership sets the objective and the unit (’local’) commanders control how that is done.

Ever hear of LBJ and his approach to military operations?

I bet not.

“Centralized control - centralized execution” (CC) was his approach. . .and abject failure was the result.

CC is nothing more than LBJ, in a way.

[A_perfect_lady]

I was in the military for 11 years, thank you. I'm proud of our military and I really wouldn't like to see it balkanized under state control. For some things, you need the Federal government... otherwise, why have it at all? Why even be The United States? Why not just be 50 different countries?

Now, I'm not saying education is one of those things, necessarily. But when I look at Common Core and I see that it is actually, in English, to the right of California, I realize that leaving education in the hands of liberals has brought us to this pass. The solution is not to howl that we'd better just keep it as it was, because state control IS liberal control when liberals are the only ones going into the field in the first place.