Here's an important thing to understand about the Common Core Standards--nobody is in charge of them. Many standards have official gatekeepers. For instance, the National Institute of Standards and ...

If you spend enough time on Facebook, you’ll see a lot of elementary-school math problems. Frustrated parents post pictures of their kids’ homework and rail about how confusing it is. Dozens of other ...

Topeka? The Common Core educational standards for reading and math, long a source of intense political controversy, will soon go by the wayside in Kansas. But they aren’t going away because of ...

This post was originally posted on the Curriculum Matters blog. Earlier this week, Louisiana legislators approved a new set of academic standards to replace the Common Core State Standards, reports my ...

BISMARCK -- Common Core math and English language-arts state standards have been drawing some questions, concerns and criticism. I appreciate the chance to clear up some confusion. North Dakota always ...

The widespread pledge by states to adopt “common core” academic standards could allow online education to truly break down state boundaries for teachers and students for the first time, and reduce the ...

The Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a right-tilted think tank and longtime staunch supporter of the Common Core, just released a survey of ELA teachers and some attendant conclusions about how the Common ...

In 2009, the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Chief Council of State School Officers (CCSSO) launched the Common Core State Standards initiative, a state-led effort to construct national ...

After the Common Core standards in reading and math ran into backlash from critics claiming federal overreach, the supporters of new science standards decided to take a different tack. They explicitly ...

Florida's Republican governor plans to sign an executive order to rid Florida of the last vestiges of Common Core. Common Core is a national education initiative that set academic standards for ...