The Common Core State Standards, national standards adopted by Connecticut in 2010, promise to reflect "the knowledge and skills that our young people need for success in college and careers." This ...

New Hampshire-based company Measured Progress, which developed online Common Core tests used in Montana, Nevada, and North Dakota, has acknowledged a major glitch in the tests’ rollout. Technical ...

Pearson PLC, the world’s largest education company, made a major miscalculation on the Common Core academic standards, expecting a windfall that failed to materialize as it headed into a downward ...

South Dakota state Rep. Jim Bolin, a retired teacher, introduced two bills to limit Common Core national education standards. Both failed by narrow votes in March. Bolin sees the standards, which were ...

In Kentucky, college professors and a new governor could jettison Common Core. Concerns that Common Core loosens educational standards have found a political climate that’s more inclined to approach ...

The people who came up with the idea of the Common Core saw reading comprehension as a content-neutral set of skills, leading to massive confusion. The Common Core may be the most misunderstood ...

Common Core is the business community's answer to the failure of the education system to provide graduates in science, technology, math and engineering, courses of study commonly referred to as STEM.

I am very concerned that the Common Core math being taught in school is not preparing the students for the situations they will need upon graduation. My college major was a BS in Mathematics and ...