Common Core supporters were, at the time, extremely sensitive to charges that the Core was a curriculum and extremely vocal in declaring that it was no such thing, perhaps because the federal ...

Supporters of the Common Core State Standards are moving to confront increasingly high-profile opposition to the standards at the state and national levels by rallying the private sector and ...

Parents who, like Gumanow, have voiced confusion about the Common Core standards and uncertainty as to what the criteria mean for their children, are not alone in their criticism. School districts ...

Vermont, along with 44 other states, adopted a common set of educational standards called the Common Core State Standards which will be used to articulate what we expect our students to know and ...

“Common Core” became a catch-all for everything in education that folks on the right didn’t like. And on top of everything else, it was seen accused of being a piece of socialist indoctrination.

“We’d love to transition to only teaching these words in context, but the reality is we have a gap to fill before students are common-core ready,” especially English-learners and struggling ...

Common Core used widely, despite debate Questions over Common Core's ability to improve student performance in reading and math still persist Sep 19, 2017 ...

Last but not least is Common Core’s 1st grade standard: “Add within 100, including adding a two-digit number and a one-digit number, and adding a two-digit number and a multiple of 10, using concrete ...

At stake there is not the game of basketball, but the development of students as thoughtful, engaged readers and effective writers. The Common Core requires the teaching of 200 narrow skills each year ...