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 ...

One of the three lead writers of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), a national initiative with roots in No Child Left Behind and other federal government education programs, recently told a ...

As in many states, Louisiana’s Common Core review is the result of years of pressure from parents and politicians. Last year, lawmakers — in an effort to neutralize the issue in the months leading up ...

A year after Rhode Island implemented Common Core across its public school systems, some parents and stakeholders in the debate have raised concerns about the initiative’s efficacy and interference ...

The effort follows earlier battles over social studies and could spread to other states reviewing academic standards.

Despite fake viral test questions and fear of a government take over of education, a slight majority of parents have a positive opinion of Common Core, according to a new Gallup survey. The set of ...

Stephanie Furlong's oldest son, a 10th-grader at Santa Monica High School, took an accelerated math track in middle school. Her next child, an eighth-grader at John Adams Middle School, has taken the ...

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Lair, chairman of Missouri’s House Appropriations Committee on Education, inserted an $8 budget line item to mock Common Core critics as tinfoil hat-wearing conspiracy theorists. Lair’s item reads: ...

Washoe County schools to offer 2026-27 salary incentives for hard-to-fill jobs The Washoe County School District plans to offer new salary incentives in the 2026-27 school year aimed at recruiting and ...

BATAVIA — An event in Albany later this month is not about picket lines and protests, Loy Gross says. Common Sense Education Day is to allow folks a meaningful voice to eliminate the Common Core ...

Some Eastchester parents say a school is using a bullying tactic to get their kids to take the Common Core tests. A letter from the superintendent was sent Wednesday to Greenvale Elementary School ...