The widespread pledge by states to adopt “common core” academic standards could allow online education to truly break down state boundaries for teachers and students for the first time, and reduce the ...

Fifteen years after the calamitous rollout of the Common Core math standards, the once-derided strategy has proven its staying power, with many states holding onto the original plan or some close ...

As many educators and researchers will attest, there’s no exact science to choosing vocabulary words—no inherent reason the word “detest” is more important to teach than “despise,” or why “compassion” ...

Approximately 4,000 people have officially voiced their support for the Common Core in New York state, according to High Achievement New York. The pro-Common Core Learning Standards coalition released ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – Time is running out to take part in New York state’s public opinion survey on the Common Core learning standards. The online survey closes Monday. The state Education Department ...

To understand why classrooms look so different today, it helps to trace how teaching methods have evolved. From the rise of ...

Rigorous educational standards like the Common Core can help students stay in school while engaging them, according to education officials. According to a report by Camille A. Farrington of the ...

This is another story in KPCC's ongoing series, Classroom Core, that takes a close look at how the Common Core teaching standards are playing out in schools in Southern California. Amid rows of chairs ...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has assembled a panel of lawmakers, parents, educators and business leaders to look into the state's rollout of the Common Core Learning Standards. Cuomo announced plans for ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--STEMscopes Math for grades K-8 and Algebra I from Accelerate Learning has received the highest score for alignment to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) from Learning ...

Advocates of social and emotional learning (SEL) can learn much from the travails that bedeviled Common Core. A close look at Common Core offers a number of telling parallels that SEL proponents would ...

Political expediency is terrible policy. This idiom is crystal clear when it comes to the criticisms of the Common Core. To hear the cynics tell it, repealing the Common Core learning standards is as ...