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 ...

This article is the third in a three-part series on Common Core public outreach. It’s not just the federal government and private foundations spending millions to promote Common Core as state and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. What’s going on? This debate over ...

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.