Forty-five states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core State Standards with the goal of sending high school graduates into the world ready for college or career. But they're ...

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 ...

Fifteen years after the calamitous rollout of the Common Core math standards, the once-derided strategy has proven its staying power, with many states holding onto the original plan or some close ...

Viewed from Washington, which often is the last to learn about important developments, opposition to the Common Core State Standards Initiative still seems as small as the biblical cloud that ariseth ...

Ted Cruz opposes Common Core, according to his website. He thinks every child deserves a quality education and breezily applauds “school choice.” Rand Paul wants to abolish the Common Core, and wants ...

“To me, the Common Core is common sense.” Maury Cook, first-year principal at Ramsay School, and his staff members apply their own twist to Common Core, focusing mostly on math. Teachers supplement ...

When students graduate from high school, they assume their diploma means they are ready and fit for studies at the next level. But when they go to college, too many of them are unprepared for ...

Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s recent comments disparaging “white suburban moms” for protesting new national tests and curriculum mandates are not the isolated remarks of an out-of-touch elitist.

What is Common Core? It is the latest attempt by the federal government to control public education in the USA. Look at the history of this effort. 1979: Department of Education was formed. 1983: A ...