You remember Common Core. First it was going to save the educational universe (and help lift a couple of political careers). Then it was going to turn all our children into gay communists. Then, most ...

Right now, America's schools are in a sprint. Forty-four states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core State Standards. That means new learning benchmarks for the vast majority of ...

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 ...

Although Common Core is voluntary, the federal government has had a role in encouraging states to adopt the standards. States earned a small number of extra points (40 of a possible 500) in the ...

President Barack Obama signed sweeping education reform into law in December that gives states more freedom to develop their own K-12 education standards. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, highlighted this ...

Readers say progress has mostly been made under national education standards. To the Editor: Re “Renouncing the Common Core” (Sunday Review, July 24): Diane Ravitch perpetuates myths about the Common ...

The core issue in education this brand new school year revolves around something called the Common Core. It's a prescription for teaching and grading students that's provoked an uncommonly spirited ...

New York leaders have approved a new set of reading and math expectations for students, moving the state a step away from the Common Core State Standards, which are still in use in some 36 states. The ...

Donald Trump's Fed chair nominee is basically using "common core" math to deceive the president, according to an ex-insider. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the former Georgia congresswoman who lost her seat ...

The 2012 Brown Center Report on American Education includes a study of the Common Core State Standards project. It attempts to predict the effect of the common core on student achievement. The study ...

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 Common Core State Standards are dead. Done. Finished. Authorities have told us so. Betsy DeVos delivered a brief eulogy at the American Enterprise Institute earlier this month. “And at the U.S.