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 ...

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 ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first of two stories explaining Common Core standards and the controversy surrounding them. The second part will be in Monday's edition. Local school districts are working ...

Is Common Core Becoming Less Common? Back in 2010, 45 states agreed to adopt a single set of requirements for what K-12 children should know in each grade in math and English. Approximately 80 percent ...

North Carolina legislators have introduced a proposal that would require their state to examine national Common Core education standards. Over the last few years, North Carolina and 44 other states ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. JEFFERSON CITY • A bill originally intended to repeal the Common Core education standards in the state was given initial approval ...

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 ...

In an effort to provide Common Core information to parents, state education officials have released the “Parents’ Guide to Student Success” — a series of resources designed to help parents understand ...

KANSAS CITY — Education officials in most of the states that have adopted Common Core standards say they will go forward with the benchmarks for reading, writing and math despite objections, according ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Regarding "Missouri considers dropping Common Core school standards" (April 27): This is terrifying. For the first time in memory ...