The Common Core State Standards is a new initiative that outlines literacy and mathematics expectations for K-12 schools across the country. iStock For all of their superficial similarities, the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Most of the states that first endorsed the Common Core academic standards are still using them in some form, despite continued debate over whether they are improving student ...

Two education experts who are on both sides of Arizona’s Common Core debate are both saying that they like the idea behind a bill that’s now being considered in the Arizona Senate. Senate Bill 1035, ...

JEFFERSON CITY • Ten minutes before a work group tasked with developing elementary school social studies standards began its Thursday meeting, members ran through the list of absentees. Heavy rain ...

An essay posted to The Diplomat, "an international current affairs magazine for the Asia-Pacific region," puts into words the uneasy feeling I've had listening to Louisianians rail against Common Core ...

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush used a speech Thursday to the annual meeting of his Foundation for Excellence in Education to try to steer the conversation away from focus on the Common Core standards to ...

Donald Trump first said he would be "getting rid of Common Core" at a Republican primary debate in 2016. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos declared the Common Core was "dead" in 2018. But the federal ...

From one country to the next, from one authority to the next, government education policies are inspired by much the same concepts and models, with a few variations. For example, they define "core ...

Even though the Alabama Legislature did not remove the state from the federal Common Core education guidelines in the recently completed session, the debate over Common Core is not over. On Monday, ...

DENVER — New standardized tests aligned with Common Core standards have students hunched over computers across Colorado this month — unless their parents pulled them out of the examinations because of ...

Sometimes choices aren’t clear-cut. But the selection that needs to be made with the Common Core academic standards is the exact opposite: It’s simple and obvious.