Are standards best route to school improvement or have the politics proven lethal? Traditionally, we commemorate a 10th wedding anniversary with tin to symbolize resilience and strength. This year’s ...

Think about the major policy undertakings of the Obama administration over the past six and a half years. It began with a “stimulus” that wasted trillions in the quest of generating jobs, but did ...

Review of Common Ground on Common Core: Voices from across the Political Spectrum Expose the Realities of the Common Core State Standards, Kirsten Lombard, ed., Resounding Books, 2014, 436 pages: ...

The Common Core State Standards are a set of learning standards in English Language Arts and mathematics adopted by Oklahoma legislators in 2010. These standards, if adopted by a state, will replace ...

The state Senate voted 33-12 to adopt a bill that would replace the Common Core standards in North Carolina. Although it is framed as a repeal measure, the bill would allow the state to continue using ...

Supporters of the Common Core State Standards are moving to confront increasingly high-profile opposition to the standards at the state and national levels by rallying the private sector and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Note to Republican presidential candidates: Congress passed, with broad bipartisan support, an education law that specifically says the federal government cannot push academic ...

Forty-five states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core State Standards, promising full implementation by the 2014-15 school year. While most of the discussion about the Common ...