Common Core - the dreaded C-words, as some might call it. It should be no surprise that as an education writer I've been keeping tabs on the latest developments of the major school standards reform ...

When she first heard about about Common Core two years ago, she heard the good things about it, the promises the program made to "raise the bar" on public education. "In reality it hasn't turned out ...

Hi Celia - primary or core instruction is definitely based on the Common Core and district curriculum. When looking at support services you look at instructional level for some skills; but you must ...

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 ...

(WZZM) - It's an issue that could affect your child's future and no one can seem to agree on it. The Common Core is a set of English and math standards that say what students should know and when.

Growing opposition to the Common Core academic standards for the nation’s public schools is threatening to slow down and derail the initiative. Forty-five states and the District of Columbia ...

Sara Wood, a parent from St. Tammany, speaks in opposition of Common Core during a town hall meeting on the Common Core education standards on October 1, 2013. (Photo by Kathleen Flynn, Nola.com / The ...

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 ...

It's almost impossible to make any statement about the Common Core State Standards without a challenge from one side or the other in the highly politicized debate that has surrounded the project since ...

CONCORD — They are two of the most well-established experts on educational policy in the country and in many ways have come to represent the pro and the con when it comes to Common Core State ...

The ambition of Common Core is “quite broad,” said Jonathan Supovitz, co-director at the Consortium for Policy Research in Education at the University of Pennsylvania. He said the standards have the ...

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 ...