The Common Core State Standards are a set of learning standards in English Language Arts and mathematics adopted by Oklahoma legislators in 2010. These standards, if adopted by a state, will replace ...

The Kansas State Board of Education (KSBE) voted to make the Sunflower State one of the last states to adopt the national Common Core State Standards Initiative. These standards were designed by a ...

BATON ROUGE, La. - Gov. Bobby Jindal sought Wednesday to derail Louisiana's use of standardized tests tied to the Common Core education standards, but state education leaders say the governor's ...

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 ...

To The Herald-Whig: I continue to probe the Common Core Standards. The more I learn the more disturbing they become. There are many things important to know. I am finding the schools really know ...

I have had the honor of observing firsthand the miracle of the development of adolescents’ thinking and reasoning skills. In grade seven, their thinking is based mostly upon concrete events. By grade ...

Montana legislators are debating a proposal that would repeal the state’s implementation of the Common Core State Standards, a set of requirements for what elementary and secondary school children ...

Growing opposition to the Common Core academic standards for the nation’s public schools is threatening to slow down and derail the initiative. Forty-five states and the District of Columbia ...

BISMARCK - A judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to end North Dakota's membership in a multistate group that develops tests aligned with the Common Core education standards, but the state is ...

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 ...

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 ...