USA today story on the lack of historical knowledge among teenagers. Nothing particularly new about this study.

What’s interesting, though, is this description:

The study’s release today in Washington also serves as a sort of coming out for its sponsor, Common Core, a new non-partisan group pushing for the liberal arts in public school curricula. Its leadership includes a North Carolina fifth-grade teacher, an author of history and science textbooks, a teachers union leader and a former top official in the George H.W. Bush administration.

Clearly, one won’t be able to predict the outcome of the study based upon this group of individuals. And for the American Enterprise Institute — the sponsor — to be characterized as non-partisan? That’s crazy talk.