Common Core requires students to think more critically about concepts rather than just understand how to get a correct answer. Opponents of the program say Common Core is too rigid.

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 ...

That was followed by ObamaCare which most agree has been a disaster for the nation’s healthcare sector and, finally, Common Core, a one-size-fits-all testing program intended, we were told, to improve ...

The Common Core standards have teachers and politicians divided. One teacher even quit her job in protest.

Backers of keeping the current Common Core program say the state is making changes to classroom instruction just as teachers and students are adapting to the new approaches.

The common core sets goals for what students should learn, not rigid curriculum guidelines, write Richard Laine and Chris Minnich.

His "opinion" shows that he is not conversant with the facts concerning the Common Core program and does not want to be.

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Astorino has voiced criticism of the Common Core program in the past, and has said his school-aged children would opt out of the exams last spring.Astorino also said he rejects the idea of a national ...

ALBANY – Leaders of more than 200 colleges and universities from 33 states, including all the State University of New York colleges, today created a new coalition to defend the Common Core.