Please. Somebody explain to me how some written document, contentless from my perspective, and certainly processless (where are the details for implementation) at the state level affect curriculum delivery at the school level?

I see no reason to have any standards document at the state level. I've read portions of many of these standards, and they are almost identical in wording for each grade and key terms are not defined. Everything is very fuzzy.

Fordham Institute is simply a political hack institute that gets money from god-know-where to issue useless statements based on useless documents that are easily obtainable because they are published.

The only documents that might matter are the specific curriculum documents and resources available to individual teachers that are used to guide the teacher in the classroom. Nothing else matters.

Of course, reviewing those documents for each school district in each state would require real effort by those like Fordham. They aren't about to do any actual work -- it would cut into their coffee-breaks.

The Forham Institute is a conservative think tank organization which focuses on education. It is not associated with Fordham University. According to their facebook page, they promote school choice.