The leader of a pro-Common Core group Wednesday disputed what he labeled as outlandish claims used by opponents of the new academic standards. Barry Erwin, president of the Council for a Better ...

A bill intended to remove Common Core curriculum standards from Maine government-operated public schools has been amended, removing provisions that would have established a review process to make ...

As a candidate, President Donald Trump demonstrated his Republican bona fides by promising to get rid of Common Core educational standards. But halfway through his first year, the Trump administration ...

Vermont did not reapply for the second round of the Obama administration’s Race to the Top grant competition, but the state’s board of education did take U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s advice ...

Gov. Bobby Jindal’s opposition to Common Core has put him on sort of a political island in Louisiana. But it also means that he is in line with nearly every Republican listed as a 2016 presidential ...

I have had the honor of observing firsthand the miracle of the development of adolescents’ thinking and reasoning skills. In grade seven, their thinking is based mostly upon concrete events. By grade ...

But lawmakers say they expect, at a minimum, that certain Common Core test results will not count against student records for a period of time, additional money will be pumped into teacher ...

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