Still not implementing the Common Core The report’s authors describe how the implementation of Common Core State Standards could help increase student reading levels, since CCSS texts for ELA ...

ELA teachers aren’t making the instructional shifts necessary for the Common Core According to a stunning report released today, “a huge percentage of ELA teachers” aren’t making the instructional ...

Compiled by a team of teacher researchers, a digital curriculum platform is adding more than 750 free, Common Core-aligned lesson plans in math and English language arts for grades 2 to 12. The lesson ...

Some of the biggest critics of new lesson plans aligned with the national Common Core standards are the people charged with teaching them. A growing number of teachers say the national standards, ...

Disappointed by existing English/language arts curricula that were supposedly aligned to the Common Core State Standards, officials at the Louisiana education department decided to enlist teachers and ...

Every so often, K-12 schooling witnesses the rise of an intuitive, easy-to-like, bipartisan reform push that’s backed by deep-pocketed funders and a lot of recognizable names. While this alignment of ...

Not everything's a walk in the PARCC. So how did the field tests fare, according to the test administrators, test coordinators, and students who tested the test? The report found that overall, the ...

In a small brick house in Glen Burnie, Maryland, 9-year-old Thevy Mak sits at the piano, practicing before a lesson. Small and thin, with long dark hair, Thevy is a little girl caught up in a big ...

Last year, only 34.5 percent of city students in grades 3 to 8 passed the math exams, and 29.4 percent passed in reading and writing. Overall, officials said, the scores inched up slightly from the ...