The Common Core State Standards have vaulted into the national consciousness lately thanks to some high-profile dissenters, like Louis C.K. ("Kids teachers parents are vocally suffering.") and Stephen ...

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 ...

“To me, the Common Core is common sense.” Maury Cook, first-year principal at Ramsay School, and his staff members apply their own twist to Common Core, focusing mostly on math. Teachers supplement ...

Montana legislators are debating a proposal that would repeal the state’s implementation of the Common Core State Standards, a set of requirements for what elementary and secondary school children ...

Fifteen years after the calamitous rollout of the Common Core math standards, the once-derided strategy has proven its staying power, with many states holding onto the original plan or some close ...

The May 18 editorial "Keeping the Core" DATE cited me as the most critical speaker at a recent "listening meeting" in Bentonville hosted by Lt. Gov. Tim Griffin and members of the Governor's Council ...

The Common Core exams will replace the Measurements of Student Progress held every spring. "There's so much change going on in our systems that we don't ever see what actually worked," he said.

Michael Brickman, national policy director at the pro-Common Core Thomas B. Fordham Institute, said Thursday that while Indiana called for transitioning to new standards and South Carolina mandated a ...

WASHINGTON -- Viewed from Washington, which often is the last to learn about important developments, opposition to the Common Core State Standards Initiative still seems as small as the biblical cloud ...

Viewed from Washington, which often is the last to learn about important developments, opposition to the Common Core State Standards Initiative still seems as small as the biblical cloud that ariseth ...

For almost the past four decades, academic standards have been a defining focus of efforts to improve student achievement. The movement for high academic standards—determinations of what students ...