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Under the Reagan administration, deregulated free markets were removing the shackles from corporate tycoons on a crusade to save the free world from what, they believed, was the tyranny of big government and high taxes. In 1987, the U.S. Congress, under President Reagan, passed the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Improvement Act as a way to recognize preeminent public or private organizations that exemplified excellence and quality.1 Education would soon be caught up in the headiness of corporate “heroism” and corporate superstars would be looked upon as the big minds with the big ideas about how to systemically reform public education in the United States. The path to the Common Core State Standards would, in large part, be carved by these corporate superstars.
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Owens, D.D. (2015). Corporate Superstars and an Inconvenient Truth. In: The Origins of the Common Core. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137482686_4
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