New national standards for math and English education offer the promise of more relevance to the real world and the ability to compare students' performance across state lines. But skeptics worry ...

It's crucial that Louisiana keep to its current path, some business leaders say. The Jefferson Chamber of Commerce, the Jefferson Business Council, the Council for a Better Louisiana, the Greater New ...

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 Director ...

It's almost impossible to make any statement about the Common Core State Standards without a challenge from one side or the other in the highly politicized debate that has surrounded the project since ...

Wyoming’s decision to adopt a set of national education standards in math and language arts may be a year old, but discourse on the learning goals was fresh among a crowd of parents, teachers and ...

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 ...

North Carolina legislators have introduced a proposal that would require their state to examine national Common Core education standards. Over the last few years, North Carolina and 44 other states ...

The new president of the Louisiana Association of School Superintendents praised Common Core but said Monday that state education leaders bungled the rollout of the new academic standards. “The ...

PARCC administrators manual. The Louisiana Department of Education released new school-by. -school data on the test results on Thursday, Oct. 22. (Photo by Ty Wright, Associated Press.) (Ty Wright, ...