The afterschool hours are invaluable time for students to develop the knowledge and skills they need for the interconnected world and to meet the Common Core. Here, Ken Anthony from the Connecticut ...

School is in session at Elite Scholars Academy and there's something new this year other than notebooks, pencils and clothes -- the academic standards. The year-round Clayton County charter school is ...

The common core is a set of education standards for K-12 public schools, adopted by Wisconsin in 2010. The standards apply to math and language arts. Now, some are questioning whether it’s a good ...

Critics of Common Core education standards told Missouri House Interim Education Committee members Tuesday the guidelines lack rigor, are one-size-fits-all and allow the government to collect too much ...

Dublin City Schools staff members have been preparing for the last three years for the full K-12 implementation of the Common Core standards in Ohio in 2014-15. These standards were adopted by the ...

The Common Core comes with new instructional requirements, administrators said in a survey. A new report from the Center on Education Policy (CEP) finds that states are actively working to implement ...

School is more than learning your ABCs and how to solve quadratic equations. We know that learning how to think critically, work cooperatively, and solve problems creatively are among the most ...

Most of the states that first endorsed the Common Core academic standards are still using them in some form, despite continued debate over whether they are improving student performance in reading and ...

When a student moves from one school to another, one of the biggest adjustments he or she must make — aside from meeting and making new friends — is academically. Their new school may be covering a ...

Marion Brady is a veteran educator who has long argued that public education needs a paradigm shift, though not the same one that school reformers who push the Common Core State Standards, school ...