The first is a color poster highlighting 21st-century ... parents with a few handouts that highlight the major common-core anchor standards in English/language arts and math.

Kentucky is the Common Core poster child because it was early to implementing the new standards. The percentage of students who needed remedial courses in math has dropped by 38 percent since 2009.

Now it makes them cry. Thanks standardized testing and common core!" But teachers in states where the math and reading standards have been in place longest say that, in spite of the criticisms ...

But one state has become a Common Core poster child: Kentucky ... passed a new education law requiring new, higher academic standards and adopting new tests. The law also required higher education ...

Even though Texas is not part of the national voluntary Common Core education standards, they’re still a hot political topic in the state. Last week, a coalition against the standards held an ...

The standards have been in place in many districts for three years, but most textbooks, curriculum and teacher training have yet to catch up to the Common Core’s grand vision. The math standards, in ...

The Common Core State Standards was one of the biggest initiatives in decades aimed at changing public education — and like many school “reforms” in the era of high-stakes standardized ...

Higher academic standards like those in the Common Core were supposed to improve student performance, but new data shows that hasn’t happened. Teachers need more specific guidance than standards ...

The issue is Common Core. And the arguments I consistently hear against it are the same: The standards are a backdoor attempt by Washington to usurp local control of education and institute a ...

Support for Common Core educational standards has dropped as awareness of the program has spread over the past year, new polling finds. Among Americans who have heard a great deal about the ...