Note: this is part 4 of a ten-part series on the Common Core. For part three, see here. Building on my discussion of Common Core aligned materials yesterday, today I want to talk about Common Core ...

Motoko Rich, intrepid education reporter at the New York Times, has a piece out called “Grading the Common Core: No Teaching Experience Required,” and it raises an important question: should teachers ...

It’s been a rough year for the Common Core standards. As parents, teachers, officials, and politicians learn more about the standards, more and more states are considering ways to get out of Common ...

Not long after New York state raised eyebrows with a curriculum solicitation that was anything but business-as-usual, it is triggering uneasiness among teachers who feel that tests are being given on ...

The learning standards were new. The textbooks were not. So curriculum director Tammy Baumann and her team took the books apart, literally. Then they rearranged lessons, filled in holes with outside ...

A conversation with Harvard researcher Thomas Kane explores the findings of new research about teachers’ attitudes towards Common Core. In 2015, researchers from Harvard University’s Graduate School ...

Here's an important thing to understand about the Common Core Standards--nobody is in charge of them. Many standards have official gatekeepers. For instance, the National Institute of Standards and ...

WEBVTT WHAT IS ON THE MIND OF MARYLAND TEACHERS WHEN IT COMES TO THE COMMON CORE STANDARDS? SOME ANSWERS IN THE TEACHER UNION SURVEY AND EXPLORE IS HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT THE COMMON CORE AND TEACHER ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Gov. DeSantis announced Thursday that he intends to end Common Core in the state, but Florida has done this all before. In 2013, then Gov. Rick Scott ordered the state to withdraw from ...

The Common Core State Standards are dead. Done. Finished. Authorities have told us so. Betsy DeVos delivered a brief eulogy at the American Enterprise Institute earlier this month. “And at the U.S.

Murphy touched on teacher pay, priority schools, and the transition to Common Core in his sitdown with WHYY/Newsworks. In his recent State of the State address, Governor Jack Markell referred often to ...