At the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, the painting “El Jaleo” —a canvas spanning 11 feet that features a flamenco dancer—is a popular starting point for getting students to spend time with ...

In Utah, the state department of education is pulling together textbooks aligned to Common Core State Standards made up entirely of open educational resources, or OERs. South Dakota officials have ...

After 10 years, Common Core isn’t living up to its promise — even while teachers say it’s changed the classroom experience for the better. Ten years ago, states across the country began to embrace a ...

With another school year underway and arguments about Common Core still raging on, AEI scholars have been weighing in on the issue. Just on Tuesday, AEI Resident Scholar Rick Hess participated in an ...

It's divided political parties and pitted parents against educators against politicians. But almost five years since its introduction, many Americans are still asking: what is Common Core? First, the ...

Tom Loveless has long been a clear-eyed incisive critic of the Common Core State Standards. A year ago, he wrote In short, the evidence suggests student achievement is, at best, about where it would ...

One of the three lead writers of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), a national initiative with roots in No Child Left Behind and other federal government education programs, recently told a ...

The Common Core State Standards are dead. Done. Finished. Authorities have told us so. Betsy DeVos delivered a brief eulogy at the American Enterprise Institute earlier this month. “And at the U.S.

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, ...

Common Core. Seems like everybody has an opinion about what it is and what it isn’t. One thing is for sure, though. State Republican Senators want it gone. Like now. Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh ...

Common Core curriculum and testing is unconstitutional and impractical. Therefore, it should be removed from the education system. The 10th Amendment clearly states that any power not given to the ...