It's almost impossible to make any statement about the Common Core State Standards without a challenge from one side or the other in the highly politicized debate that has surrounded the project since ...

Is Common Core Becoming Less Common? Back in 2010, 45 states agreed to adopt a single set of requirements for what K-12 children should know in each grade in math and English. Approximately 80 percent ...

But more importantly, Santa Ana's new superintendent says, students will have a better understanding of the subject matter because teachers aren't just "teaching to the test." In Santa Ana classrooms, ...

New national standards for math and English education offer the promise of more relevance to the real world and the ability to compare students' performance across state lines. But skeptics worry ...

The Indiana Senate on Thursday passed Senate Bill 193, a measure providing for public hearings around the state to reconsider adoption of Common Core education standards. The vote was 38–11, with all ...

CONCORD — They are two of the most well-established experts on educational policy in the country and in many ways have come to represent the pro and the con when it comes to Common Core State ...

Growing opposition to the Common Core academic standards for the nation’s public schools is threatening to slow down and derail the initiative. Forty-five states and the District of Columbia ...

Scott Richard, the Louisiana School Boards Association's executive director, criticized the Louisiana Department of Education's roll out of the Common Core educational standards. Louisiana's ...

The Legislature has created special committees to study the Common Core academic standards. Wisconsin adopted the standards for math and English language arts three years ago and there are no other ...

Learning how to distinguish between fact and opinion would seem to be a pretty fundamental piece of any education. In the bizarre world of U.S. public schools, though, it's proving to be controversial ...