Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifteen years after the calamitous rollout of the Common Core math standards, the once-derided strategy has proven its staying ...

Model math standards produced by conservative education advocates helped spark a battle in South Dakota that could spread to other states.

Bills mandating the “Science of Reading” have been passing left and right across the nation. While some, like the Pennsylvania bill that passed 201-0, provide gentle nudging and support, others, like ...

Conservative arguments for and against the Common Core. Many conservatives, perhaps a majority, now believe that the Common Core State Standards are among the worst things ever to happen in American ...

As a candidate, President Donald Trump demonstrated his Republican bona fides by promising to get rid of Common Core educational standards. But halfway through his first year, the Trump administration ...

Paul Halley recently wrote in a letter to the editor that New Jersey’s teacher shortage could be resolved if the state did away with Core Curriculum Standards. (The federal program, which started in ...

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EXEMPLAR 1: SEEDS OF SCIENCE/ROOTS OF READING Jacqueline Barber, Lawrence Hall of Science at University of California, Berkeley, shared her insights into developing Seeds of ...

For almost the past four decades, academic standards have been a defining focus of efforts to improve student achievement. The movement for high academic standards—determinations of what students ...