Common Core is the first major reform initiative to deal with the front end of education -- the substance of what actually is being taught in the classroom, instead of focusing solely on student ...

Carol Kosnitsky and Barbara Van Haren, experts in special education professional development, answered your questions about incorporating the Common Core State Standards into individualized ...

Spurred by the adoption of common standards in nearly every state, educators are turning to open digital resources as they re-evaluate and realign curricula.

What is Common Core? The Common Core State Standards are the biggest change to U.S. education in a decade. They lay out skills that students in each grade should learn in mathematics and English.

Fifteen years after the calamitous rollout of the Common Core math standards, the once-derided strategy has proven its ...

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Read more about the Common Core. Partisan bickering ...

Beyond teacher education, the first effects of Common Core will be on how colleges place students in remedial education. Right now, institutions rely on widespread, mass-marketed tests -- largely ...

Supporters of the new Common Core education standards adopted by 45 states say the standards hold American students to much higher expectations, and move curriculum away from a bubble-test culture ...

The core issue in education this brand new school year revolves around something called the Common Core. It's a prescription for teaching and grading students that's provoked an uncommonly ...

More than five years after U.S. governors began a bipartisan effort to set new standards in American schools, the Common Core initiative has morphed into a political tempest fueling division among ...

Sarah Schwartz at Education Week also cites as a “curriculum roadblock” the “ long tradition of local control.” Tom Loveless, in his book-length autopsy of Common Core, pointed at the many ...

It is troubling that Joe Biden has never owned up to the failures of the Obama administration when it comes to education, and Common Core sits high on that list.