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.

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 ...

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.

As a sometime warrior in the war of words over the Common Core State Standards, I have been neutral ... Even producing a poster advertising a school event would fit the expectations of this ...

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 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 ...

Common Core: A Step Backwards for English Standards Little attention has been paid to the academic quality of the mathematics, literature, and writing standards that NGA and CCSSO developed ...

When I was invited recently to attend a two-day conference with David Coleman, president of the College Board and the main architect of the Common Core State Standards, I was skeptical.

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 ...