Mon, 26 Aug 2013 19:14:51 GMT — The Common Core State Standards have been adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia with the goal of better preparing the nation's students for college or a job ...

RALEIGH (WTVD) -- It wasn't the end result critics of the Common Core educational standards thought they'd get. In fact, it was a far cry from it. "What we saw was that a back-door decision had ...

The Common Core State Standards are the source of much discussion among both educators and parents. Common Core standards apply to public schools in the 45 states that have adopted it, including ...

Q&A: Common Core Real-world applicability is a theme for the Common Core State Standards, which North Carolina schools began using last year. The standards were developed by the National Governors ...

Nick Storz is a government student at Patrick Henry College and an intern with the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation. John Schoof is a research associate at the Center for ...

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 ...

Is Common Core Becoming Less Common? Back in 2010, 45 states agreed to adopt a single set of requirements for what K-12 children should know in each grade in math and English. Approximately 80 percent ...

At the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, the painting “El Jaleo” —a canvas spanning 11 feet that features a flamenco dancer—is a popular starting point for getting students to spend time with ...

The people who came up with the idea of the Common Core saw reading comprehension as a content-neutral set of skills, leading to massive confusion. The Common Core may be the most misunderstood ...

For almost the past four decades, academic standards have been a defining focus of efforts to improve student achievement. The movement for high academic standards—determinations of what students ...

The Common Core State Standards are a set of learning standards in English Language Arts and mathematics adopted by Oklahoma legislators in 2010. These standards, if adopted by a state, will replace ...