Tom Loveless has long been a clear-eyed incisive critic of the Common Core State Standards. A year ago, he wrote In short, the evidence suggests student achievement is, at best, about where it would ...

In your column of April 26, you concluded that the Common Core made “school improvement tougher and more ideological.” Combined with your quotes of Tom Loveless’ book, Between the State and the ...

Just give all the chalk to me, and don't let anyone else touch the board. While the Comon Core is a shredded shadow of its ambitious former self, the standards movement that birthed it is still out ...

Common Core (CC) K–12 math and English standards are lingering, despite concerted efforts by concerned parents and taxpayers to remove them. It is like a house with an underwater mortgage: The United ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Note to Republican presidential candidates: Congress passed, with broad bipartisan support, an education law that specifically says the federal government cannot push academic ...

Supporters of the Common Core State Standards are moving to confront increasingly high-profile opposition to the standards at the state and national levels by rallying the private sector and ...

The public school system has experimented with Whole Language, No Child Left Behind, Race To The Top, and now Common Core. When this fails, I wonder what will be next. In our hurry to get to the top, ...