A bafflingly graded third-grade math quiz caused a firestorm on Reddit last week and has spread across the internet, causing several people to question Common Core math standards and the teacher's ...

The expectations for effective communications set forth in the Common Core State Standards are shared by the Communicate Ideas column of the global competence matrix, which sets the expectation that ...

Common Core is … a. A good and harmless idea that has been unfairly maligned by a small band of critics on the left and the right. b. A reasonable concept that has been poorly executed and ...

The implementation of the Common Core State Standards has stirred up much controversy and debate. Some of this debate is healthy, particularly over how to develop rigorous, common standards and ...

The Common Core State Standards arose from a simple idea ... asking teachers of all subjects to teach literacy skills that are unique to those disciplines. Here’s a taste of the literacy ...

A new report that surveys curriculum nationally and reaches thousands of K-12 and college instructors as well as workplace supervisors and employees has some bad news about the Common Core State ...

The Common Core State Standards was one of the biggest ... the California Assessment Program (CAP), given in selected grades with matrix sampling, a new technique used also by NAEP.

Most of the states that first endorsed the Common Core academic standards are still using them in some form, despite continued debate over whether they are improving student performance in reading ...

Tom Loveless has long been a clear-eyed incisive critic of the Common Core State Standards. A year ago, he wrote In short, the evidence suggests student achievement is, at best, about where it ...

Other states have pushed back dates when Common Core test results will be used in evaluating students, teachers and schools. The PBS NewsHour is in a unique position to see how the implementation ...

Linnea Wolters was prepared to hate the Common Core State Standards. She taught fifth grade at a low-income school in Reno, Nev., where, she says, there was always some new plan to improve things.