The Michigan House passed a budget bill prohibiting the state department of education from using state money to implement the Common Core national education standards and associated tests. The Senate ...

Washington, D.C. – The transition to the Common Core State Standards offers an important opportunity to replace America’s flawed and misaligned assessment system with better and fairer tests, ...

The Common Core State Standards are designed to have a transformative effect on teaching and learning in the United States. But, as we all know, the 46 states and the District of Columbia that have ...

With the widespread adoption of the Common Core State Standards, public education in the United States is poised to take a major step forward in readying the next generation of Americans for success ...

While people like U.S. Rep. Todd Rokita and Indiana lawmakers push back against Common Core standards, schools are going forward with implementation. The schools are right to do so. The Common Core ...

I have an article out today over at Education Next looking through the Common Core implementation glass darkly. As I say in the piece, for a variety of reasons (some of which were enumerated by Bill ...

Critics of the Common Core reading and math standards adopted by forty-odd states since 2010 have taken to calling them “Obamacore,” in a play on health care reform. The “Obamacore” moniker reflects ...

Mon, 10 Mar 2014 23:32:15 GMT — The Common Core Implementation Panel revealed a series of recommendations on Monday to improve the implementation of the Common Core in New York. The panel, created in ...