Doug Herrmann wrote a check to his son's school using common core math. — -- One dad's frustration with his son's second grade math homework is going viral on Facebook after the dad posted a ...

Chances are if you say the two words “Common Core” to a parent they will likely evoke strong opinions, and generally not favorable ones. The academic standards that focused on math and English and ...

The adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) has led to a “historic” drop in student achievement scores on the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) test, also known as the ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Governor Ron DeSantis has officially eliminated Florida's Common Core education standards and replaced it with B.E.S.T. B.E.S.T. stands for Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking ...

PHOENIX — Gov. Jan Brewer ordered her agencies to stop using the term “Common Core’’ when referring to new education standards, in response to hostility from critics over what they see as a federal ...

When Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp travels outside of Atlanta, he apparently serves up red meat, which is why his menu at the Republican state party’s convention in Savannah last weekend featured Common ...

Late last week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, announced that he had fulfilled a campaign promise from 2018: He declared that the state had found a replacement for the Common Core State ...

Tom Loveless has long been a clear-eyed incisive critic of the Common Core State Standards. A year ago, he wrote In short, the evidence suggests student achievement is, at best, about where it would ...

Continuing its evolution from quirky disruptor of traditional classroom learning to mainstream player aligned with the education establishment, the nonprofit Khan Academy recently unveiled new online ...

Advocates of social and emotional learning (SEL) can learn much from the travails that bedeviled Common Core. A close look at Common Core offers a number of telling parallels that SEL proponents would ...

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 ...