Quoting from an email from Susan Ohanian:

“Although I have operated a website of resistance to NCLB and high stakes testing for 7 years, I set up www.stopnationalstandards. org with the hope that it might be able to get educators and parents to focus on a specific target. My hope is that people will submit information and opinion about the Common Core national standards. I’d like to see Q&A, Talking Points, & Research that help educators and parents engage in activism. I’ve been trying to post little acts of activism that will encourage other people to go forth and do likewise.
Not that it’s easy to be heard. NEA told Philip Kovacs and me in PDK that they’ll do ‘whatever’ to keep a seat at the corporate-politico table. This seems to be the general response from the professional organizations. A leader at IRA told me ‘We never tell members of Congress what they don’t want to hear.’
Well, it’s past time for us to tell IRA, NCTE, and all the rest what they seem reluctant to tell Congress.
I asked NCTE to announce in INBOX, their weekly electronic newsletter to their 100,000+ members, the existence of www.stopnationalstandards.org, as “news” of what a member is doing. Just a news item. I was told that INBOX is assembled in-house and they don’t solicit contributions. So far, two issues after my request, they have not seen fit to print any notice of the website.”

And then she provides the following:

“On July 18, Stephen Krashen and I sent a letter to NCTE and IRA Currently, this is “in press” at Reading Today, no word from NCTE.”

A Seat at the Table: Capitulation to the National Standards Movement?
by Stephen Krashen and Susan Ohanian

Sent to The Council Chronicle (NCTE) and Reading Today (IRA) .

To the Editor:

According to an article that appeared in Education Week on June 15, NCTE and IRA both want a “seat at the table” to create national standards along the lines proposed by Education Secretary Arne Duncan.
Apparently, both organizations agree that spending billions developing national standards and national tests is a good idea, and are upset only because they have not been invited to join the party.
Apparently, both NCTE and IRA agree that our major priority in education is more precise and uniform measurement, that all children should know where they are “on every step of their educational trajectory” (Arne Duncan) in all subjects.
Apparently they agree that this assembly-line rigid approach is in tune with the way children learn.
Apparently, some of the leaders of the two major literacy organizations have not spent much time with children, and are unfamiliar with the vast research literature that says this approach is all wrong.

— Stephen Krashen & Susan Ohanian