Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifteen years after the calamitous rollout of the Common Core math standards, the once-derided strategy has proven its staying ...

Paul Halley recently wrote in a letter to the editor that New Jersey’s teacher shortage could be resolved if the state did away with Core Curriculum Standards. (The federal program, which started in ...

Conservative arguments for and against the Common Core. Many conservatives, perhaps a majority, now believe that the Common Core State Standards are among the worst things ever to happen in American ...

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 ...

As a candidate, President Donald Trump demonstrated his Republican bona fides by promising to get rid of Common Core educational standards. But halfway through his first year, the Trump administration ...

At New Lisbon Elementary School in Wisconsin, it used to be difficult for principal Stephanie Moore to keep track of what students in each grade were learning from one year to the next. The school ...