Brandy Frakes, an elementary school teacher at the Aspire University Charter School in Modesto, is tackling one of the greatest challenges facing educators: building support among bewildered parents ...

An in-depth discussion of Common Core standards, how to implement them in the classroom and how to evaluate student performance. Divided up by grade level and subject. An in-depth discussion of Common ...

As you may know by now, Indiana is experiencing some education turmoil. My colleague Andrew Ujifusa of State EdWatch described the situation as “a mixture of fierce education policy fights, governance ...

Concerned about what they see as a dearth of instructional materials aligned with the Common Core State Standards in math, several educators in Utah, with support from the state office of education, ...

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The United States scores below the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) average in mathematics literacy, behind 29 other nations, predominantly from Europe. Even Massachusetts ...

Some say the new Common Core math standards are too easy. Others say they're too hard or too focused on ideas rather than correct answers. Whatever they are, they're in full effect in California ...

A correction to an earlier version of this article has been appended to the end of the article. When Veera Sinha was a little girl in India, her father asked his kids to solve math puzzles in their ...

Common Core math is getting the works from critics: It's too demanding for most kids; holds back the speedy kids; not the same as what parents already know; makes kids cry. It even promotes "fuzzy ...

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