Cash-strapped state education budgets have another fiscal burden looming: the cost of implementing Common Core standards. Based on a range of state estimates, a reasonable estimate of the total ...

“How can we best prepare our students for the common core in language arts?” As I mentioned in the last post, I have been no fan of the Common Core standards (see The Best Articles Sharing Concerns ...

Despite the impact the implementation is having on teachers and schools, not many parents know what Common Core is all about. According to a September Gallup poll, almost two-thirds of Americans had ...

The Common Core State Standards began in 2009 as a state-led effort to measure the nation’s students against a shared benchmark. At first, the standards received broad acceptance. Education leaders ...

During the summer, I am sharing thematic posts bringing together responses on similar topics from the past 11 years. You can see all those collections from the first 10 years here. Today’s theme is ...

Common Core is a set of learning standards that emphasizes higher-ordered thinking skills, such as problem solving and evaluative thinking. The standards identify a set of skills, dispositions and ...

While debates have sparked across the country as 45 states work to implement the Common Core State Standards, Wyoming school districts have quietly been making curriculum adjustments to ensure that ...

Brandy Zeringue speaks her mind as more than 100 parents gathered for a meeting to discuss their concerns and anger over the implementation of Common Core at Lake Harbor School in Mandeville, Tuesday, ...