The training focused on new content standards aligned with Common Core. Advocate staff photo by BRAD BOWIE -- Kenneth Waters, a math teacher at Lafayette Middle School, asks a question during a summer ...

Supporters of the Common Core State Standards are moving to confront increasingly high-profile opposition to the standards at the state and national levels by rallying the private sector and ...

The Common Core standards create consistent and rigorous expectations for what students need to learn and be able to do from kindergarten through high school to prepare for college and 21st-century ...

North Carolina has invested tens of millions of dollars to implement the Common Core academic standards that could eventually be abandoned in public schools statewide. State lawmakers on Wednesday ...