Common Core State Standards and related consortia assessments have dominated education news for two years.

It’s time to turn toward more profound standards. Ethical standards. Today President Obama announced his gun control proposal – certain to catalyze loud disputes pro and con its proposed solutions.

Teach your children by modeling the underlying principles of Common Core: apply knowledge, think critically, and communicate. Act. Call your congressperson and senator and advocate gun control.

Read E.J. Dionne's opinion piece in today's Washington Post. Its conclusion says it all:

“Most heartening of all was the tone the president took. He did not cast himself as an evenhanded umpire far above the fray, handing down ideas that all people of good will would inevitably accept. He acknowledged that the battle ahead would be difficult. He predicted he would have to fight the lie that his plan constituted ‘a tyrannical assault on liberty’. And he sought to mobilize a new effort to counteract the entrenched power of those who have dictated submissiveness in the face of bloodshed.”

“Enough,” Obama declared, insisting that change would come only “if the American people demand it.”