Education Week

Common Core’s Focus on Concepts Is Key to Improving Math Education, Report Says

The Common Core State Standards’ emphasis on conceptual understanding in math will improve students’ problem-solving skills and ultimately help prepare them for jobs of the future, argues a new report ...
Heartland

A Common-Sense Approach to the Common Core Math Standards

An article by Elizabeth Green (CEO of a nonprofit education news organization called Chalkbeat) that recently appeared in the New York Times magazine, attempts to explain why most Americans are bad at ...
Education Week

Another Parent’s ‘Common-Core Math’ Slam Goes Viral

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10208079501134099&set=a.2320230334001.2140526.1496845642&type=1 It’s hard to write about the Common Core State Standards for ...
Politifact

Under Common Core, teaching simple addition takes a full minute, Texas governor says

Under Common Core, it takes far too long for a teacher to show a student how to do simple addition, said Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. In 2013, the Texas Legislature passed a law prohibiting school ...