Wyoming’s decision to adopt a set of national education standards in math and language arts may be a year old, but discourse on the learning goals was fresh among a crowd of parents, teachers and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scott Richard, the Louisiana School Boards Association's executive director, criticized the Louisiana Department of Education's roll out of the Common Core educational standards. Louisiana's ...

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 ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first of two stories explaining Common Core standards and the controversy surrounding them. The second part will be in Monday's edition. Local school districts are working ...

Is Common Core Becoming Less Common? Back in 2010, 45 states agreed to adopt a single set of requirements for what K-12 children should know in each grade in math and English. Approximately 80 percent ...

The Indiana Senate on Thursday passed Senate Bill 193, a measure providing for public hearings around the state to reconsider adoption of Common Core education standards. The vote was 38–11, with all ...

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 ...

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 ...

PARCC administrators manual. The Louisiana Department of Education released new school-by. -school data on the test results on Thursday, Oct. 22. (Photo by Ty Wright, Associated Press.) (Ty Wright, ...