The Common Core State Standards was one of the biggest initiatives in decades aimed at changing public education — and like many school “reforms” in the era of high-stakes standardized ...

I am afraid that the Common Core continues many of these errors, and makes some new ones as well. Yet in New York, the first large state to implement the tests associated with the new standards ...

For some, the Common Core State Standards seemed to come from nowhere, and appeared to be a sneaky attack on states' rights to control local education. But for those involved in writing the ...

Duncan likes to boast that the Common Core standards were adopted by 45 states, but neglects to mention that the states were required to adopt “college-and-career-ready standards” to be ...

She joined Vox in 2014. The Common Core includes a lot of those benchmarks at each grade level, but there are a few unifying themes. Language arts standards focus on basing arguments on evidence.

As states across the country implement broad changes in curriculum from kindergarten through high school, English teachers worry that they will have to replace the dog-eared novels they love with ...

Now it makes them cry. Thanks standardized testing and common core!" But teachers in states where the math and reading standards have been in place longest say that, in spite of the criticisms ...

The writers of the Common Core wanted to change that. Although the Common Core standards are not meant to dictate pedagogy or curriculum—something that proponents have repeatedly highlighted in ...

Global Competence can be developed within any discipline, and cuts across disciplines. The adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English language arts and mathematics in 45 states and ...