Common Core State Standards began as a state-initiated effort to build consistent K-12 standards throughout the country. Though Common Core started as a bipartisan effort, the standards have evolved ...

When a student moves from one school to another, one of the biggest adjustments he or she must make — aside from meeting and making new friends — is academically. A student lights a small piece of ...

Two Frewsburg residents contacted me with questions. Concerned about his grandchildren being taught using Common Core, the grandfather wanted to know Frewsburg’s results on state assessments. Another ...

To briefly summarize Common Core, the decision to adopt the Common Core standards was left almost exclusively in the hands of the governors and the state boards of education. The public was not made ...

In 2009, state governors were growing increasingly concerned over students' inability to compete globally. Plagued by inconsistent academic standards, study after study indicated that the U.S. was ...

The Louisiana state Department of Education did make the right choice in adopting the Common Core standards. The Common Core places each student in every state on a scheduled path, focuses on ...

West Virginia legislators are debating a proposal that would repeal the state’s implementation of Common Core State Standards, a set of requirements for what elementary and secondary school children ...