Wyoming’s decision to adopt a set of national education standards in math and language arts may be a year old, but discourse on the learning goals was fresh among a crowd of parents, teachers and ...

When she first heard about about Common Core two years ago, she heard the good things about it, the promises the program made to "raise the bar" on public education. "In reality it hasn't turned out ...

Growing opposition to the Common Core academic standards for the nation’s public schools is threatening to slow down and derail the initiative. Forty-five states and the District of Columbia ...

Supporters of Common Core say the new benchmarks will inject more rigor into K-12 education, push students to compete better with those in other top-performing countries and allow for more accurate ...

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 ...

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 ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - State Education Superintendent John White says a Baton Rouge judge has thrown out a lawsuit seeking to end Louisiana's use of the Common Core education standards in public ...

VINELAND — As public schools statewide begin using the new Common Core standards in math and language arts, about 140 area people held a daylong symposium Saturday to raise awareness of reasons to ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. JEFFERSON CITY • A bill originally intended to repeal the Common Core education standards in the state was given initial approval ...

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 ...

The latest national test scores in reading, math and science reflect more of the same pattern in American education: Far too ...