The training focused on new content standards aligned with Common Core. Advocate staff photo by BRAD BOWIE -- Kenneth Waters, a math teacher at Lafayette Middle School, asks a question during a summer ...

North Carolina has invested tens of millions of dollars to implement the Common Core academic standards that could eventually be abandoned in public schools statewide. State lawmakers on Wednesday ...

The Common Core standards create consistent and rigorous expectations for what students need to learn and be able to do from kindergarten through high school to prepare for college and 21st-century ...

Supporters of the Common Core State Standards are moving to confront increasingly high-profile opposition to the standards at the state and national levels by rallying the private sector and ...

School is in session at Elite Scholars Academy and there's something new this year other than notebooks, pencils and clothes -- the academic standards. The year-round Clayton County charter school is ...

Teachers are in full learning mode again Thursday, five days before school starts. Butte school district educators who teach grades kindergarten through 12th grade are attending the second day of a ...

Betty Jones, of Keystone Elementary, studies training material to bring back to her school, Tuesday, June 10, 2014, in Memphis, Tenn. Teachers participated in a state wide Common Core training program ...