Wyoming’s decision to adopt a set of national education standards in math and language arts may be a year old, but discourse on the learning goals was fresh among a crowd of parents, teachers and ...

Adopting Common Core curriculum was voluntary. Once the program had been crafted by educators and education experts, members of the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School ...

Critics of Common Core education standards told Missouri House Interim Education Committee members Tuesday the guidelines lack rigor, are one-size-fits-all and allow the government to collect too much ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - State Education Superintendent John White says a Baton Rouge judge has thrown out a lawsuit seeking to end Louisiana's use of the Common Core education standards in public ...

Common Core - the dreaded C-words, as some might call it. It should be no surprise that as an education writer I've been keeping tabs on the latest developments of the major school standards reform ...

Supporters of the new Common Core education standards adopted by 45 states say the standards hold American students to much higher expectations, and move curriculum away from a bubble-test culture ...

Growing opposition to the Common Core academic standards for the nation’s public schools is threatening to slow down and derail the initiative. Forty-five states and the District of Columbia ...

Supporters of Common Core say the new benchmarks will inject more rigor into K-12 education, push students to compete better with those in other top-performing countries and allow for more accurate ...

Common Core State Standards Initiative will arrive full force in California in 2014 when the Race to the Top Assessments will be given to K-12 students. Common Core is a top-down national program, ...

CONCORD — They are two of the most well-established experts on educational policy in the country and in many ways have come to represent the pro and the con when it comes to Common Core State ...

EPPING — Critics of national Common Core education standards urged residents to make their voices heard by bringing their concerns over the effort to improve academics to local school boards and ...

For almost the past four decades, academic standards have been a defining focus of efforts to improve student achievement. The movement for high academic standards—determinations of what students ...