Second question: Does it, nonetheless, represent an improvement in education and a legitimate and important effort to ensure that American children are equipped to thrive in an increasingly ...

Nearly every state has signed on to use the Common Core State Standards as a framework for teaching English/language arts and mathematics to students. Translating them for the classroom, however, ...

Critics of the Common Core Learning Standards are hard to miss. They are vocal, organized and successful at bringing together local opposition to standardized tests based on the Common Core standards ...

Political expediency is terrible policy. This idiom is crystal clear when it comes to the criticisms of the Common Core. To hear the cynics tell it, repealing the Common Core learning standards is as ...

Public school teachers are divided on the merits of the Common Core State Standards, with 44 percent having a negative opinion of the shared academic goals and another 40 percent of teachers favoring ...

State test results revealed Wednesday that more than half of the participating students, at four area school districts, failed to display basic proficiency in mathematics and English language arts.

Regarding your editorial ("Mr. Astorino's lesson plan," July 15), there is a simple answer to the question you pose: "And replace it [the Common Core learning standards] with what?" The answer is: Go ...

“Let’s go over our math learning target for today,” said Christina Spontaneo, Love Elementary School teacher, to her fourth-grade class. “Say it with me – I can determine that a digit represents 10 ...

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 ...