I think it's a fact that our system, even for relatively high-profile "centralized" efforts, is in fact very decentralized already. I don't think we've tried ce

I think it's a fact that our system, even for relatively high-profile "centralized" efforts, is in fact very decentralized already. I don't think we've tried centralized command of instruction methods and various things about how schools run that have way more to do with the experience of a student than someone in Washington saying "do Common Core, uh, somehow", really, so far as I'm aware, aside from some very high-level directives. I know lots of school administrators are effectively incompetent at implementing reforms & any kinds of systems, really, directed from higher up or otherwise (frankly, it's usually even worse when "otherwise"), due to some combination of ignorance or misaligned incentives (the balance of these varies but one or both are often present in some quantity). Whether it's worth bringing the few who have a clue and are choosing to use it to-heel in order to attempt to fix the many who don't and aren't, I do not know, but so far as I know anything like that's pretty far outside the Overton window so I wouldn't worry about it either way. Just recording how this stuff looks when it hits the state, district, and school level, since not everyone has insight into that, and it's largely a mess. Probably it's worth looking at how schools are run and their governance structured in other countries that are doing better than us, if the core motivation of all this anxiety is our falling behind them.