For nearly an hour, Dowan McNair-Lee has been walking her 8th grade English/language arts students through ways to identify the central idea of a text. She’s come at it from several angles, and no ...

Teachers who reported using at least one textbook aligned to the Common Core State Standards were more likely to report engaging students in key mathematical practices that those who didn’t, according ...

Our celebrity panel's results for the Common Core sample quiz question No. 6. Common Core puts a new emphasis on nonfiction -- as you can see from Monday's three-point question, which might have made ...

Our celebrity panel for the Common Core sample quiz aced Question No. 1, starting the 10-question quiz off with a four-way tie. (Dan Swenson, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) Our celebrity panel aced ...

This article is the second of three in a series on Common Core public outreach. A coalition of private foundations has spent approximately $2.5 million to promote Common Core, primarily by teaching ...

We've all seen the jokes about Common Core fails and heard parents lament about not being able to help their children with homework under the complex new math standards, but few people seem to ...

A correction to an earlier version of this article has been appended to the end of the article. When Veera Sinha was a little girl in India, her father asked his kids to solve math puzzles in their ...

Should schools teach cursive handwriting? The question is a polarizing one in the K-12 education world. One of the most widely cited criticisms of the Common Core State Standards is that they don't ...

Cursive-writing requirement among the most significant changes to standards Board vote concludes nearly two years of deliberation on Arizona's learning standards State Superintendent Diane Douglas ...

COLUMBIA - KOMU 8 News learned Thursday some local students will take practice tests this spring to help school districts evaluate if they are ready to give new computerized tests next year. Students ...