Is Common Core Becoming Less Common? Back in 2010, 45 states agreed to adopt a single set of requirements for what K-12 children should know in each grade in math and English. Approximately 80 percent ...

Montana legislators are debating a proposal that would repeal the state’s implementation of the Common Core State Standards, a set of requirements for what elementary and secondary school children ...

This is what I know. I know it is about common standards along with common assessments for all kids. I know it will impact student graduation. I know it will impact student grade promotion. I know it ...

The president of Louisiana’s top School Board said Monday that the Common Core debate has turned into a “fiasco” and Gov. Bobby Jindal is solely to blame. “The fiasco we are going through right now is ...

“To me, the Common Core is common sense.” Maury Cook, first-year principal at Ramsay School, and his staff members apply their own twist to Common Core, focusing mostly on math. Teachers supplement ...

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 ...

The Common Core exams will replace the Measurements of Student Progress held every spring. "There's so much change going on in our systems that we don't ever see what actually worked," he said.

Even if you believe that the Common Core standards are high-quality, internationally benchmarked and would provide a solid foundation for the American education system, you should be worried about how ...

The Common Core education standards have generated a lot of debate, and controversy. But that political noise can sometimes cloud the goal of the standards: to better prepare students for careers, and ...

WASHINGTON -- Viewed from Washington, which often is the last to learn about important developments, opposition to the Common Core State Standards Initiative still seems as small as the biblical cloud ...

For almost the past four decades, academic standards have been a defining focus of efforts to improve student achievement. The movement for high academic standards—determinations of what students ...

The Common Core State Standards have vaulted into the national consciousness lately thanks to some high-profile dissenters, like Louis C.K. ("Kids teachers parents are vocally suffering.") and Stephen ...