There is no need for a common curriculum, unless your intent is to eliminate competition, restrict innovation, and stagnate the society.
Yes, it appears that is the looters plan.

He perfectly exemplifies the type of drone the communists want in both public and charter schools. Remember, with CC, what you know doesn't matter, it's all about how you feel. His over-emo reaction says it all. Would you want your kids to be in his classroom?

From Charles Hughs Smith's article last week:
Perhaps time learning in a garden should be considered as important as time spent sitting in a classroom.

No, teachers union heads are incapable of, and unwilling to participate in, intelligent debate. They are also incapable of reason.

Wow. What ever happened to not using violent rhetoric?

Wonder if he can pass the math test without cheating.

I met a teacher a few years ago trying to get me to vote for a tax increase his argument went like this: "We already have a contract for our salaries. We're getting paid no matter what. The question is will we have supplies to teach. That's not certain. Our contract is."

I find the whole thing laughable. Unions and politically-motivated group followers are all fired up for no reason. Education is important, but a set of standards won't make or break education in the US.

I don't know if there's a way to have public education without this crap. Once politics gets involved, there's motivation for hyperbolic rhetoric, and Union teachers and Republicans who watch cable news and read blogs all day actually believe the crap.