One of the three lead writers of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), a national initiative with roots in No Child Left Behind and other federal government education programs, recently told a ...

It’s been a rough year for the Common Core standards. As parents, teachers, officials, and politicians learn more about the standards, more and more states are considering ways to get out of Common ...

As in many states, Louisiana’s Common Core review is the result of years of pressure from parents and politicians. Last year, lawmakers — in an effort to neutralize the issue in the months leading up ...

Stephanie Furlong's oldest son, a 10th-grader at Santa Monica High School, took an accelerated math track in middle school. Her next child, an eighth-grader at John Adams Middle School, has taken the ...

SULLIVAN COUNTY, Tenn. - The Common Core standards for math and English-language arts are a drastic change from how you may have learned those subjects. Sullivan County Director of Schools Dr. Jubal ...

Some Eastchester parents say a school is using a bullying tactic to get their kids to take the Common Core tests. A letter from the superintendent was sent Wednesday to Greenvale Elementary School ...

Parents in the Madison school district got their first look Thursday at how their children will be taught when the new Common Core Curriculum goes into effect. Through two one-hour information ...

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Lair, chairman of Missouri’s House Appropriations Committee on Education, inserted an $8 budget line item to mock Common Core critics as tinfoil hat-wearing conspiracy theorists. Lair’s item reads: ...

One of the largest anti-Common Core groups in the state is throwing its weight behind Gov. Rick Scott as the governor makes his final push for a second term in office. Florida Parents Against Common ...

If player does not show correctly, click here to listen. In Annapolis yesterday, about two dozen parents staged a demonstration calling the state to delay or back out implementing the Common Core ...