The Common Core State Standards may be implemented nationwide, but support for the standards has dropped to an all-time low. A new report conducted by Education Next (EdNext), a journal from the ...

This article is the second of three in a series on Common Core public outreach. A coalition of private foundations has spent approximately $2.5 million to promote Common Core, primarily by teaching ...

E.D. Hirsch was an educational conservative before educational conservatives were cool. Now a retired professor of education and humanities at the University of Virginia, Hirsch has been arguing for a ...

Supporters of the new Common Core education standards adopted by 45 states say the standards hold American students to much higher expectations, and move curriculum away from a bubble-test culture ...

Common Core seems like a good idea. In a society as mobile as ours, kids moving from one state to another should not be so far behind or ahead students in their new state. A common set of skills at ...

Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor and prospective GOP presidential contender, was wrong to support Common Core. Now, on the campaign trail, he appears to be backtracking a bit. He should go all ...

With the widespread adoption of the Common Core State Standards, public education in the United States is poised to take a major step forward in readying the next generation of Americans for success ...

Washington, DC – On Friday, January 31, the Center for American Progress and the National Center on Time & Learning will host an event to discuss how high-performing expanded-time schools provide ...

Marshall Criser III has not yet been officially sworn in as Florida's state university system chancellor, but he's already touched a nerve of some opponents of the Common Core State Standards in the ...

At first things seemed to going pretty well for a country that can't seem to agree on the color orange. Republicans and Democrats were on the same page: America's schoolchildren risked becoming ...

Poor John Huppenthal. OK, I didn’t mean that, he deserves everything he’s been getting lately. But the poor guy (didn’t mean it that time either) can’t catch a break. First, there are all those vile ...