OKLAHOMA CITY – Heather Sparks, Oklahoma’s 2009 Teacher of the Year, teaches eighth grade math. In her classroom at Taft Junior High School, students gather at round tables to mold chunks of play ...

Long a staple of the high school curriculum, the mathematics-course sequence of Algebra 1, geometry, and Algebra 2 is facing a budding challenge as schools transition to the Common Core State ...

New York leaders have approved a new set of reading and math expectations for students, moving the state a step away from the Common Core State Standards, which are still in use in some 36 states. The ...

, on one side were those who argued for a new focus on concepts and reasoning rather than drilling students on their times-tables. On the other were the traditionalists, who said the progressive ...