Just look at their claims for a uniformed curriculum, designed, funded and tested by the social engineers who brought us outcome-based education. These are the followers of John Dewey and Richard Gibboney who introduced Progressive Education that seeks to dispense with objective standards, logical thought and truths and replace them with subjective feelings, emotions and self-esteem. Now they dare demand that we must accept their poison in order to compete on the world stage. They are jackals who wish to implode America, what she stands for, and the significance of our tradition. The marketplace of ideas and commerce draws aggressive inquiry and dedication to succeed, by all that wish to compete.
Technology is seen as attractive for many of the best and brightest.
For those who believe this path means progress, they certainly have enough opportunities to pursue their goals. But to assert that out survival as a Nation depends upon a coordinated effort by the Federal Oz to cause us to walk down the yellow brick road is delusional. Standards are established within each discipline. Involvement within that process by incompetent bureaucrat's is foolhardy, and surrending to their checkbook, is suicidal. At the core of this desire to mandate a single standard is the goal to control.