It’s been a rough year for the Common Core standards. As parents, teachers, officials, and politicians learn more about the standards, more and more states are considering ways to get out of Common ...

One of the three lead writers of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), a national initiative with roots in No Child Left Behind and other federal government education programs, recently told a ...

As in many states, Louisiana’s Common Core review is the result of years of pressure from parents and politicians. Last year, lawmakers — in an effort to neutralize the issue in the months leading up ...

Stephanie Furlong's oldest son, a 10th-grader at Santa Monica High School, took an accelerated math track in middle school. Her next child, an eighth-grader at John Adams Middle School, has taken the ...

Some Eastchester parents say a school is using a bullying tactic to get their kids to take the Common Core tests. A letter from the superintendent was sent Wednesday to Greenvale Elementary School ...

Lair, chairman of Missouri’s House Appropriations Committee on Education, inserted an $8 budget line item to mock Common Core critics as tinfoil hat-wearing conspiracy theorists. Lair’s item reads: ...

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Parents in the Madison school district got their first look Thursday at how their children will be taught when the new Common Core Curriculum goes into effect. Through two one-hour information ...

WASHINGTON -- Home-schooling mom Jenni White gave some of the loudest cheers when Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin signed legislation to repeal the Common Core education standards. White, president of ...

BATAVIA — An event in Albany later this month is not about picket lines and protests, Loy Gross says. Common Sense Education Day is to allow folks a meaningful voice to eliminate the Common Core ...