As of September 2012, only Alaska, Minnesota, Nebraska, Texas, and Virginia had not adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Yet empirical evidence that demonstrates the efficacy of the initiative remains elusive. The Emperor has no clothes (Tienken 2011a). This latest installment of standardization and centralization of curriculum and assessment could be one of the largest social experiments undertaken on children, who are compelled to participate. Some have gone as far to describe the de facto nationalization of public schooling as the Stalinization of education (Baines 2011). Recently, two reports purported to demonstrate the efficacy of the CCSS surfaced. Could these reports be the pants and shirt the Emperor needs? Unfortunately, the reports suffer from methodological flaws that call into question the claims made by the authors. In this article, the author briefly critiques the latest reports on the CCSS and provides evidence on why the Emperor is still running around naked.