Common Core - the dreaded C-words, as some might call it. It should be no surprise that as an education writer I've been keeping tabs on the latest developments of the major school standards reform ...

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 ...

The state did not adopt Common Core, although several Alaska school districts did. Deputy Education Commissioner Les Morse said those districts will be held accountable for ensuring that student ...

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 ...

Growing opposition to the Common Core academic standards for the nation’s public schools is threatening to slow down and derail the initiative. Forty-five states and the District of Columbia ...

Deputy Education Commissioner Les Morse said those districts will be held accountable for ensuring that student learning is in line with the state standards in English, language arts and reading that ...

Wyoming’s decision to adopt a set of national education standards in math and language arts may be a year old, but discourse on the learning goals was fresh among a crowd of parents, teachers and ...

“Let’s go over our math learning target for today,” said Christina Spontaneo, Love Elementary School teacher, to her fourth-grade class. “Say it with me – I can determine that a digit represents 10 ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Education officials in most of the states that have adopted Common Core standards say they will go forward with the benchmarks for reading, writing and math despite objections, ...

Critics of Common Core education standards told Missouri House Interim Education Committee members Tuesday the guidelines lack rigor, are one-size-fits-all and allow the government to collect too much ...