IMO, the whole idea that all children must exit school knowing the exact same things is the problem, not any specific thing like NCLB or Common Core. The people

IMO, the whole idea that all children must exit school knowing the exact same things is the problem, not any specific thing like NCLB or Common Core. The people designing our education system appear to think of children as a raw material to be processed into a uniform commodity, and that's where all the trouble comes from.