The Common Core State Standards is a new initiative that outlines literacy and mathematics expectations for K-12 schools across the country. iStock For all of their superficial similarities, the ...

Despite renewed bickering over Common Core, a panel of Louisiana’s top school board Tuesday approved state plans on how to review the current, controversial standards. The aim is to have revised ...

Rather than math standards, we ought to look at math instruction Gov. Brian Kemp is making good on his pledge "to dismantle Common Core," holding a kickoff meeting Friday of a citizen review committee ...

Across the country, parents are discovering that what their children bring home from school looks very little like what they once learned. It isn’t just math — reading lessons, writing expectations, ...

Next month, a panel of University of California professors in the sciences and math will give their recommendations on the contentious issue of how much math high school students should know before ...

Louisiana’s top school board may have delayed the consequences of shifting to Common Core educational standards, but its action won’t stall efforts by legislators to jettison use of the standards ...

Last week, Arne Duncan, the secretary of education, picked just the right words to make an increasingly hot controversy even hotter. Like many education officials in both parties, Duncan is a defender ...