March 17, 2010 2:47PM 

# Will More Centralization Improve Education Standards? 

By [Andrew J. Coulson](https://www.cato.org/people/andrew-coulson) 

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Matt Ladner of the Goldwater Institute takes [a good long look at national education standards](http://jaypgreene.com/2010/03/16/national-standards-welfare-reform-and-the-dream-of-the-one-true-way/) on the Jay Greene blog. What, he asks, can we learn from the 1990s welfare policy debate and its outcomes?

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