Mon, 26 Aug 2013 19:14:51 GMT — The Common Core State Standards have been adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia with the goal of better preparing the nation's students for college or a job ...

RALEIGH (WTVD) -- It wasn't the end result critics of the Common Core educational standards thought they'd get. In fact, it was a far cry from it. "What we saw was that a back-door decision had ...

This new report, produced by the EPE Research Center in partnership with Education First, a national education policy and strategic consulting firm, describes states’ progress toward creating plans ...

Nick Storz is a government student at Patrick Henry College and an intern with the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation. John Schoof is a research associate at the Center for ...

I have had the honor of observing firsthand the miracle of the development of adolescents’ thinking and reasoning skills. In grade seven, their thinking is based mostly upon concrete events. By grade ...

To The Herald-Whig: I continue to probe the Common Core Standards. The more I learn the more disturbing they become. There are many things important to know. I am finding the schools really know ...

Money flowed to policy groups on the right and left, funding research by scholars of varying political persuasions who promoted the idea of common standards. Liberals at the Center for American ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...