Chester Finn is an advocate of the Common Core, which will eventually standardize education and eliminate tracking in order to cut costs. I'm not sure how that supports gifted children, lumping all children into one pathway.
And then the Common Core will cause the sky to turn red. The oceans will also boil away and life on earth as we know it will end.
Or, alternatively, maybe all those other countries (whose kids who do so much better than ours) have standards that students have to meet.
No, that can't be it. Standards = mass extinction.
