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 ...

Second question: Does it, nonetheless, represent an improvement in education and a legitimate and important effort to ensure that American children are equipped to thrive in an increasingly ...

Public school teachers are divided on the merits of the Common Core State Standards, with 44 percent having a negative opinion of the shared academic goals and another 40 percent of teachers favoring ...

For a while now, some anti-Big Government privacy activists have argued that the Common Core learning standards are actually just a front for data collection. But when it comes to student data, Big ...

State test results revealed Wednesday that more than half of the participating students, at four area school districts, failed to display basic proficiency in mathematics and English language arts.

Regarding your editorial ("Mr. Astorino's lesson plan," July 15), there is a simple answer to the question you pose: "And replace it [the Common Core learning standards] with what?" The answer is: Go ...

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 ...

New Yorkers still have a few days to share their opinions on the Common Core Learning Standards with New York state. State Sen. Cathy Young, R-C-I-Olean, recently sent communication to her ...

“Let’s go over our math learning target for today,” said Christina Spontaneo, Love Elementary School teacher, to her fourth-grade class. “Say it with me – I can determine that a digit represents 10 ...

Those readers who’ve been at this long enough will recall—in painful, vivid detail—the Common Core State Standards imbroglio that dominated education in the first half of the 2010s. At times, the ...