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 spirited ...

President Barack Obama signed sweeping education reform into law in December that gives states more freedom to develop their own K-12 education standards. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, highlighted this ...

A growing number of states are dropping the Common Core education standards. And several states committed to keeping the guidelines have postponed implementation. Jeffrey Brown talks to Rick Hess of ...

Right now, America's schools are in a sprint. Forty-four states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core State Standards. That means new learning benchmarks for the vast majority of ...

The controversy over Common Core hasn't stopped companies from cashing in on the education standards program. States have already awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in Common Core-related ...

The Common Core State Standards have vaulted into the national consciousness lately thanks to some high-profile dissenters, like Louis C.K. ("Kids teachers parents are vocally suffering.") and Stephen ...

As states continue to draw lines in the sand about whether or not they have adopted the Common Core State Standards, there’s some evidence the new benchmarks have crept into classrooms in all ...

The Common Core standards are math and English benchmarks describing what students should know after completing each grade. They were developed by states to allow comparison of students' performance.

The people who came up with the idea of the Common Core saw reading comprehension as a content-neutral set of skills, leading to massive confusion. The Common Core may be the most misunderstood ...

Although the State Board of Education adopted new Common Core standards in math and English language arts nearly seven years ago, some school districts are still in the process of implementing them.