The Common Core State Standards, national standards adopted by Connecticut in 2010, promise to reflect "the knowledge and skills that our young people need for success in college and careers." This ...

Pearson PLC, the world’s largest education company, made a major miscalculation on the Common Core academic standards, expecting a windfall that failed to materialize as it headed into a downward ...

In Kentucky, college professors and a new governor could jettison Common Core. Concerns that Common Core loosens educational standards have found a political climate that’s more inclined to approach ...

Review of Common Ground on Common Core: Voices from across the Political Spectrum Expose the Realities of the Common Core State Standards, Kirsten Lombard, ed., Resounding Books, 2014, 436 pages: ...

Common Core is the business community's answer to the failure of the education system to provide graduates in science, technology, math and engineering, courses of study commonly referred to as STEM.

I am very concerned that the Common Core math being taught in school is not preparing the students for the situations they will need upon graduation. My college major was a BS in Mathematics and ...