Next year marks the 10-year anniversary of the Common Core State Standards; the Next Generation Science Standards have been around nearly as long. The majority of states have officially adopted one or ...

The U.S. Department of Education coerced Louisiana and dozens of other states into adopting Common Core academic standards and assessments by dangling grant money in front of them, a former department ...

For nearly an hour, Dowan McNair-Lee has been walking her 8th grade English/language arts students through ways to identify the central idea of a text. She’s come at it from several angles, and no ...

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.

Some people might hear the words common core standards and tune out immediately, but not at Deer Valley. Second grade teachers went above and beyond to make the common core of language arts learning ...

The Common Core State Standards have become a political hot potato. In some cases, a punching bag. (Pick your cliche.) But the fact remains that, in 43 states and the District of Columbia, the ...

This summer, we're telling the story of the Common Core State standards in reading and math. 43 states, plus Washington D.C. are now using them. As teachers and students try to make sense of what's ...

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 ...

Since Connecticut adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in 2010, teachers have been teaching the same curriculum at the same time, but they have been having very different experiences in the ...

When the state released proposed revisions to Common Core last month, there were a lot of changes, but most seemed relatively small. In some cases wording was tweaked; in others, an existing standard ...

After 10 years, Common Core isn’t living up to its promise — even while teachers say it’s changed the classroom experience for the better. Ten years ago, states across the country began to embrace a ...

Common Core standards for math and reading were adopted by 45 governors, but they’ve since become a political football. Anne Hyslop is a policy analyst at the non-profit Bellwether Education Partners ...