The Common Core has been presented as a paradigmatic shift beyond the test-and-punish policies of NCLB. However, we are seeing the mechanisms for testing, ranking, rewarding and punishing simply ...

The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) represent one of the most ambitious American education reforms of the past century. Developed in 2009 and released in June 2010, the standards were designed ...

Earlier this week Edward Miller and Nancy Carlsson-Paige raised some thought-provoking critiques of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). While I don’t know whether early childhood educators ...

The fatal flaws in the Common Core English Language Arts (ELA) standards went unnoticed because over 45 state boards of education and/or their governors hastily adopted the standards in 2010, in ...

The Common Core has only been around since 2010, and it could just take more time to see results. While that’s true, there’s plenty of other evidence that high standards alone won’t lead to ...

The Common Core State Standards, or CCSS, represent a potential reboot for standards-based reform—an opportunity to address some of the design flaws that have diminished the policy’s ...

The Common Core State Standards, often referred to as ”Common Core” are a set of educational standards that describe what students should know and be able to do in English language arts and math in ...

The Common Core standards grew out of an effort by governors and state school superintendents to define what all students need to know by the time they graduate from high school.

Teaching elementary school math just got trickier, or at least deeper. The new Common Core State Standards require students to demonstrate a deeper understanding of math concepts, which means teachers ...

The Common Core standards have been in place since the start of the 2013-2014 school year, and students will take the first assessments aligned with them next spring.

And in order to get across their vision for classrooms, the two co-writers of the English standards, David Coleman and Susan Pimentel—academics who founded the pro-Common Core nonprofit Student ...

WASHINGTON — Common Core State Standards — a set of federal education standards adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia — have fervent supporters and just as many fervent opponents.