ATLANTA — Georgia's current education standards are coming to an end, as a new direction of learning is coming for grades K through 12. On Thursday, the state's board of education approved State ...

In 2010, a who’s who of American educators and politicians joined forces to spearhead a national initiative with wide appeal and few, if any, critics. It was called the Common Core. The pols and ...

For almost the past four decades, academic standards have been a defining focus of efforts to improve student achievement. The movement for high academic standards—determinations of what students ...

Most people did not learn about Common Core education standards until after they already had been adopted by 45 states. As more details about Common Core have come to light, a growing number of ...

Montgomery County Public Schools officials are toning down the district’s arrogant reputation with their “wholehearted” support for Maryland’s adoption of new national standards. The “Common Core ...

I read the article “Black River Falls names new superintendent” in last week’s edition of the Jackson County Chronicle. The article quoted our future superintendent as saying “the district also will ...

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 ...

It is stunning a respected research firm found Minnesota's implementation of Common Core will not be complete until the year 2064 ("Minnesota schools slow to implement the Common Core national ...

The vast majority of states have adopted Common Core academic standards, but individual states are still setting different definitions of "proficient" on annual math and reading tests, according to a ...

A guest column in the News Tribune touting the Common Core national standards for English and math as a remedy for much that ails public education made many representations that just aren't so ...