The Common Core State Standards is a new initiative that outlines literacy and mathematics expectations for K-12 schools across the country. iStock For all of their superficial similarities, the ...

The Common Core debate rolls merrily along. It’s made the occasional appearance in the contest for the GOP nomination — popping up occasionally between new Trumpisms and debate postmortems — and as ...

This article is the third in a three-part series on Common Core public outreach. It’s not just the federal government and private foundations spending millions to promote Common Core as state and ...

On the right, the Common Core has been a source of bitter division for nearly two years. Former Florida governor Jeb Bush and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have championed the adoption of these K–12 ...

Apropos of a Twitter rally around the hashtag #stopcommoncore today, Choice Media released a Common Core video debate between three experts on each side. View it in the video box at left. Common Core ...

HUNTINGTON - The debate surrounding Common Core standards in West Virginia was far from over Thursday night at Marshall University. A town hall meeting regarding Common Core provided the opportunity ...

At the end of January I stood with my House Republican colleagues and called for public hearings on the Common Core Standards in the state legislature. This will finally allow parents, teachers, ...

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush used a speech Thursday to the annual meeting of his Foundation for Excellence in Education to try to steer the conversation away from focus on the Common Core standards to ...

Two education experts who are on both sides of Arizona’s Common Core debate are both saying that they like the idea behind a bill that’s now being considered in the Arizona Senate. Senate Bill 1035, ...

Donald Trump first said he would be "getting rid of Common Core" at a Republican primary debate in 2016. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos declared the Common Core was "dead" in 2018. But the federal ...

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