Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

A Long Island high school principal is taking her fight against Common Core standards to a new level. Newsday says 62-year-old Carol Burris is quitting her job as principal of South Side High School ...

All politics is local. So Republican politicians with national ambitions better pay attention to what grassroots parents are saying and doing about the federal education racket known as Common Core.

The Common Core details what K-12 kids should know in math and English. Forty-six states have adopted it, while eleven are reconsidering that choice. In Indiana, major concerns are the cost to switch ...

Donald Trump first said he would be "getting rid of Common Core" at a Republican primary debate in 2016. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos declared the Common Core was "dead" in 2018. But the federal ...

As the father of children in New York public schools, comedian Louis CK has become a poster-parent for protest against Common Core. That's the new federally approved program of educational standards ...

Although frustrated by a three-vote defeat of a bill to reconsider Common Core national education standards or related tests in 2013, former Kansas Board of Education member Walt Chappell is resolute: ...

It is difficult to pick up a newspaper or listen to a news broadcast nowadays that fails to mention the Common Core curriculum. Conservative and liberal pundits, alike, complain about it. Let’s ...

An Iowa woman jokingly calls it "Satan's handiwork.'' A California mom says she's broken down in tears. A Pennsylvania parent says it "makes my blood boil.'' What could be so horrible? Grade-school ...