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

The Common Core State Standards set out what students from kindergarten through 12th grade should know in English and math. The standards were created by the nonpartisan Council of Chief State ...

What are standards? Why are they important? What's the Common Core? Do standards improve student achievement? Our explainer has the answers.

While the Comon Core is a shredded shadow of its ambitious former self, the standards movement that birthed it is still out there, still mulling over how their attempt to implement national ...

Is Common Core Becoming Less Common? Back in 2010, 45 states agreed to adopt a single set of requirements for what K-12 children should know in each grade in math and English. Approximately 80 percent ...

Montana legislators are debating a proposal that would repeal the state’s implementation of the Common Core State Standards, a set of requirements for what elementary and secondary school children ...

As Butte public schools roll out the red carpet for the state-driven Common Core education standards, the expected backlash is seemingly tame. But still, opponents are grumbling. Curriculum ...

WASHINGTON -- Viewed from Washington, which often is the last to learn about important developments, opposition to the Common Core State Standards Initiative still seems as small as the biblical ...

The political fight over Common Core is being waged, but is it too little, too late? Some say the standards have already taken over American education, while others say they are losing steam ...

The Common Core represents the ideas of several national organizations (of governors and school officials) about what and how children should learn. It is the thin end of an enormous wedge. It is ...