Two teachers attempt to set the record straight on the instructional shifts required by the common standards.

What will their children be taught under Common Core? After the standards were developed in 2009, five members of the 30-person Common Core validation committee refused to sign on to the standards.

The Common Core State Standards was one of the biggest initiatives in decades aimed at changing public education — and like many school “reforms” in the era of high-stakes standardized ...

Several of the new kindergarten ELA standards add the words “with prompting and support” or “with guidance and support,” but are otherwise the same as the common core.

THE Journal: What other tech tools are you using or do you plan to use to teach to Common Core? Isenberg: Because the Common Core Standards for ELA have a strong focus on academic language, ...

For years now, the Common Core State Standards have been at the center of a national controversy over public education. Supporters say the standards, being used in most states, will improve public ...

The Common Core standards do not promote the analytical thinking fostered by literary study and are more likely to promote an agenda.

Common Core State Standards, a grade-by-grade set of requirements for what elementary and secondary school children should know in each grade in math and English language arts (ELA), have been said to ...

The Common Core ELA standards identify the core knowledge and skills in four areas that students need to be college and career ready: reading, including literature and informational text across ...

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 ...