School is in session at Elite Scholars Academy and there's something new this year other than notebooks, pencils and clothes -- the academic standards. The year-round Clayton County charter school is ...

The Common Core State Standards mean big changes in classrooms across the country. This... is the sound of that change. Postcards From The Common Core Classroom Postcards From The Common Core ...

The political battles over the Common Core State Standards may feel old and settled. They are not. Critics continue to describe college- and career-ready standards as federal overreach, wasted effort ...

The education standards in Wisconsin classrooms face an uncertain future. Over the weekend, governors from across the country met for the National Governors Association in Nashville. Education reform ...

Saying they hoped to generate enough grass-roots support to get rid of Common Core, three St. Tammany Parish legislators told a small crowd in Slidell on Wednesday night that they are committed to ...

MANCHESTER — The Common Core State Standards will start being implemented in city classrooms this semester, despite the concerns expressed by its critics and some school board members. Superintendent ...

Bills mandating the “Science of Reading” have been passing left and right across the nation. While some, like the Pennsylvania bill that passed 201-0, provide gentle nudging and support, others, like ...

"Without the Gates money," Holliday added, "we wouldn't have been able to do this." Over time, at least $15 million in Gates money was directed both to the state - to train teachers in Common Core ...

The Common Core State Standards have become a political hot potato. In some cases, a punching bag. (Pick your cliche.) But the fact remains that, in 43 states and the District of Columbia, the ...

All Jamestown eighth- or ninth-grade students, who are beginning their algebra instruction this school year, must take the new Common Core Algebra 1 Regents that will be given for the first time on ...