Who are the Power Brokers behind the Common Core State Standards?

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3. Here's my theory, f.w.i.w.:

A combination of factors that vary with each organization involved, but that include:

Well-intentioned wrong-headedness;

A wishful preference to believe that education can be restored without raising taxes to either fund it or to reduce the poverty that's actually one if not the most challenging obstacles to educational success;

A ideological and/or selfish preference to channel funds toward private enterprises as a solution, rather than allow funds to be controlled by governments that remain at least slightly more answerable to the public at large; and last but not least,

The fact that "A modern economic system demands mass production of students who are not educated and have been rendered incapable of thinking." -- U.N.E.F. Strasbourg, On the Poverty of Student Life (1966).