State Superintendent Mark Johnson, who is campaigning against Common Core in his bid to become North Carolina’s next lieutenant governor, announced Thursday that a statewide survey has found strong ...

After a delay of nearly a week, the Florida Department of Education has released examples that it says backs up its rejection of dozens of math textbooks because they contained questions and exercises ...

Twenty years ago, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the legislation intended to save American children from stupidity and the “soft bigotry of low expectations,” became law. Ten years later, Common Core ...

Corrected: The Commentary incorrectly stated that the New York legislature had approved a bill to delay the use of new common-core assessments for teacher and principal evaluations. The bill has only ...

The debate over the Common Core State Standards Initiative has rocketed to the forefront of education policy discussions around the country. More than 3,000 stories were written about the common core ...

Montana legislators are debating a proposal that would repeal the state’s implementation of the Common Core State Standards, a set of requirements for what elementary and secondary school children ...

MIDDLETOWN, Del. (AP) – Remembering the plot of a short story is no longer good enough in teacher Amy Lawson’s fifth-grade classroom. Today’s students are being asked to think more critically. For ...