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The math standards, in particular, have caused outrage across the country as parents have grappled with confusing homework and garbled word problems labeled Common Core.
Zimba began the Saturday lessons to make up for what he felt was subpar math instruction at Abigail’s public elementary school in Manhattan after it switched to the Common Core, a set of controversial ...
As Kentucky enters its fifth year of the federal standards, math in the Common Core era continues to polarize.
With their heightened emphasis on language and explication, the new math standards pose unique challenges for students who are not fully proficient in English.
The Texas standards aren’t the same as the Common Core State Standards, adopted by more than 40 states. It’s actually illegal to teach Common Core in Texas. But even in a state that said an emphatic ...
In the midst of moving to the Common Core, one district education director shares how a technology-supported math program is getting students and teachers alike to think critically about data.
For five years, a San Francisco foundation funded, and a research organization closely monitored, a collaboration by 10 California districts to raise achievement under the Common Core math standards.
North Dakota teachers will craft new math and English lessons now that the state Department of Public Instruction has approved new standards to guide teaching in grades K-12.
The program she and her colleagues had been given to teach third-grade math at Keith Elementary just outside of Detroit was supposed to match the new Common Core standards that students will be ...
Science Texas’ Math Standards Look Suspiciously Familiar The state never adopted the Common Core. But its new math standards are very similar.
Green, who has been working with teachers to prepare for Common Core since the state adopted it three years ago, said her staff is integrating the standards into the curriculum.