This is a replay of Education Week’s webinar, “English-Learners and the Common Core: New Instructional Strategies.” Veteran teachers Larry Ferlazzo and Katie Hull Sypnieski, authors of Navigating 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 ...

Note: this is part 4 of a ten-part series on the Common Core. For part three, see here. Building on my discussion of Common Core aligned materials yesterday, today I want to talk about Common Core ...

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The people who came up with the idea of the Common Core saw reading comprehension as a content-neutral set of skills, leading to massive confusion. The Common Core may be the most misunderstood ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Gov. DeSantis announced Thursday that he intends to end Common Core in the state, but Florida has done this all before. In 2013, then Gov. Rick Scott ordered the state to withdraw from ...

Common Core very specifically outlines in “nitty-gritty” detail not only what students are expected to learn, but exactly what teachers should be teaching. “The standards are much more rigorous and ...