How does one tie together the motives of a student, a teacher, a parent and a politician to produce national education standards?
This is one of several questions that the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, seeks to answer in its latest report, entitled "Common Core and the Centralization of American Education."
Amid the increasingly surreal scramble for the Republican Party's presidential nomination, one of the most bizarre promises of the primary season appears to have gone relatively unnoticed. During the dispiriting slog he endured before finally winning his home state's primary, Ohio Governor John Kasich announced that if elected president, he would reunite the progressive rock band Pink Floyd.
