For nearly an hour, Dowan McNair-Lee has been walking her 8th grade English/language arts students through ways to identify the central idea of a text. She’s come at it from several angles, and no ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Common Core is officially done in Florida with the state's Department of Education saying it has been "officially eradicated" from classrooms. The department said in a news release ...

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The U.S. Department of Education coerced Louisiana and dozens of other states into adopting Common Core academic standards and assessments by dangling grant money in front of them, a former department ...

Next year marks the 10-year anniversary of the Common Core State Standards; the Next Generation Science Standards have been around nearly as long. The majority of states have officially adopted one or ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Friday that Common Core has officially been eradicated from Florida classrooms. "Florida has officially eliminated Common Core," said DeSantis in a press release. "I truly ...

Since Connecticut adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in 2010, teachers have been teaching the same curriculum at the same time, but they have been having very different experiences in the ...

TALLAHASSEE, FLA. (WSVN) - It’s official: Common Core is now a thing of the past in Florida classrooms. The Florida Department of Education announced that Common Core has officially been eliminated ...

Common Core grew out of a discussion between State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna and education leaders in other states in 2007 on seeking a common set of standards to measure academic ...

As she wraps up class, fourth-grade teacher Rosalyn Bailey walks by each table, hovers over each child and points at the math assignment. “What’s two-tenths plus four-tenths?” Bailey asks one of her ...

After reading The Sun’s editorial, “Ready for kindergarten?” (May 24), I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry at the absurdity of the editorial board’s take on the Common Core and their belief that ...