The Common Core State Standards have vaulted into the national consciousness lately thanks to some high-profile dissenters, like Louis C.K. ("Kids teachers parents are vocally suffering.") and Stephen ...

(WZZM) - It's an issue that could affect your child's future and no one can seem to agree on it. The Common Core is a set of English and math standards that say what students should know and when.

Just give all the chalk to me, and don't let anyone else touch the board. While the Comon Core is a shredded shadow of its ambitious former self, the standards movement that birthed it is still out ...

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 ...

Montana legislators are debating a proposal that would repeal the state’s implementation of the Common Core State Standards, a set of requirements for what elementary and secondary school children ...

WHAT IS COMMON CORE?The Common Core State Standards are a set of academic benchmarks adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia designed to lay out which concepts students should master. They ...

In the first year of his presidency, Barack Obama launched his "Educate to Innovate" campaign. The initiatives that came from this campaign are aimed at building a workforce strong in science, ...

WASHINGTON -- 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 ...

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 ...

More than 250,000 students across the country have opted out of taking the standardized tests which measure proficiency in math and language arts More than 250,000 students across the country have ...