BOSTON - A group of Massachusetts educators and business leaders wants to block a ballot initiative that seeks to reject the Common Core, arguing that a move to abandon the educational standards would ...

Hundreds of parents, grandparents, and children packed a January Indiana Senate hearing on a bill to remove the state from the Common Core, a national list detailing what K-12 students should know in ...

The vast majority of states have adopted Common Core academic standards, but individual states are still setting different definitions of "proficient" on annual math and reading tests, according to a ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. The State Board of Education unanimously approved the adoption of Common Core State Standards today, ...

Common Core, an effort to upgrade standards in key fields of study, has rallied a cadre of opponents who see the tentacles of the federal government reaching into school districts and destroying local ...