The Common Core State Standards are dead. Done. Finished. Authorities have told us so. Betsy DeVos delivered a brief eulogy at the American Enterprise Institute earlier this month. “And at the U.S.

Think about the major policy undertakings of the Obama administration over the past six and a half years. It began with a “stimulus” that wasted trillions in the quest of generating jobs, but did ...

Review of Common Ground on Common Core: Voices from Across the Political Spectrum Expose the Realities of the Common Core State Standards, by Kirsten Lombard, Resounding Books, 2014, 436 pages; ...

Forty-five states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core State Standards, promising full implementation by the 2014-15 school year. While most of the discussion about the Common ...

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 ...

Roughly a decade before Republicans nationwide made critical race theory a cudgel in their attack on teaching and curricula they deem biased and divisive, the common core was the education world’s ...

Earlier this week, Common Core took another blow when the Gates Foundation’s education chief, Vicki Phillips, urged states to wait two years before using Common Core tests to make decisions about ...

Opponents have spoken out against the standards at state school board and interim legislative meetings, and coalesced into a group called Stop Common Core Nevada. Some are working with lawmakers in ...

Beginning in 2010, mathematics and English language arts standards, called the Common Core State Standards, were adopted in 45 of 50 U.S. states. The Common Core Standards represent a substantial ...

This summer, a wave of heat is sweeping across US school districts as both legislators and right-wing groups push back against the alleged incursion of Critical Race Theory into schools. Some of the ...