Fifteen years after the calamitous rollout of the Common Core math standards, the once-derided strategy has proven its ...

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While the Comon Core is a shredded shadow of its ambitious former self, the standards movement that birthed it is still out there, still mulling over how their attempt to implement national ...

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 ...

The Common Core State Standards set out what students from kindergarten through 12th grade should know in English and math. The standards were created by the nonpartisan Council of Chief State ...

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 ...

WHAT IS COMMON CORE?The Common Core State Standards are a set of academic benchmarks adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia designed to lay out which concepts students should master ...

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 ...

What are standards? Why are they important? What's the Common Core? Do standards improve student achievement? Our explainer has the answers.

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 ...

The political fight over Common Core is being waged, but is it too little, too late? Some say the standards have already taken over American education, while others say they are losing steam ...

What I’d like to say is Common Core, out the door, don’t come back. As manager of Palm Beach schools’ math and sciences curriculum, it’s Eva Cwynar’s job to be excited about math ...