The State Board of Education on Tuesday released its new draft science framework, the first update to guidelines for teaching science in California in 11 years. The board will collect public comments ...

As the draft common standards undergo their final revisions, many minds are turning to the question of how to put them into practice in classrooms. But as a recent meeting of leading educators and ...

Many educators and analysts have noted that there is a lot of empty space between adopting the new common standards and testing students to gauge mastery of those standards. Now, we are starting to ...

Education experts have long argued for rigorous state standards on the theory they’ll lead to better curriculum—and higher student achievement. But in most of the U.S., literacy standards have only ...

The Common Core State Standards state what students should master, but they are not a curriculum. Jumping from the standards to create lesson plans misses a crucial middle step of developing a ...

The College Board’s 2014 curriculum framework for teaching Advanced Placement US History provoked a well-deserved firestorm, which led to a significant revision in 2015. The controversy over the AP US ...

Carroll County’s Board of Education unanimously approved Wednesday two options for high school students whose parents want to opt out of the state’s new health curriculum standards. The options, ...