In January, a bill to kill the Common Core and force the state to rewrite its education standards was introduced in the state Legislature. Less than a month later, roughly 400 demonstrators gathered ...

Thirty-one percent on English Language Arts, and 36 percent in math. Those were the statewide results of the Common Core tests that third- through eighth-graders took in April and May. Surely, many ...

There has to be more to school than this. Critics of the Common Core initiative have long argued that it’s not just what the standards focus on, but what they don’t focus on, that has damaged U.S.

Common Core math is all the rage these days, sometimes quite literally. Some parents, some school boards and even U.S. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., have lambasted, or at least questioned, the ...

Another packed room awaited Indiana lawmakers reviewing Common Core national standards August 5, with people lining the walls, ringing the star-studded hearing room floor, and filling the upper ...

Midterm elections might be in the rear view mirror, but the statewide fight against Common Core State Standards hasnt let up. Those who oppose them hope Gov. Rick Scott now will pay closer attention ...

A decade ago, back in 2012, when the Common Core was still riding high, I penned a cautionary piece imagining how the effort would look a decade hence—in 2022. In this imagined “future,” I conjured up ...