The questions, taken from a Common Core fourth-grade reading test, came to a Columbia professor in an email from an anonymous teacher, part of a blistering critique of the exam. The professor put the ...

Missouri public school children spent untold hours this spring prepping for a new computer-based standardized test. It required written essays, details to back up answers, and raised concerns that ...

On Tuesday night, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker proposed removing state funding for tests tied to Common Core State Standards, the so-called “Smarter Balanced” test public school students are slated to ...

Governor Bobby Jindal might be open to vetoing state school board regulations set up to help Louisiana purchase a new standardized assessment associated with Common Core. The governor has recently ...

After being criticized for an alleged lack of transparency, the state Education Department plans to release a larger portion of this year’s Common Core-based exams in July. About 25 percent of last ...

Tensions are rising between state Superintendent of Education John White and a growing number of local school superintendents over how and when Common Core test results will be released. White has ...