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 ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - State Education Superintendent John White says a Baton Rouge judge has thrown out a lawsuit seeking to end Louisiana's use of the Common Core education standards in public ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. JEFFERSON CITY • A bill originally intended to repeal the Common Core education standards in the state was given initial approval ...

Common Core - the dreaded C-words, as some might call it. It should be no surprise that as an education writer I've been keeping tabs on the latest developments of the major school standards reform ...

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 ...

Supporters of Common Core say the new benchmarks will inject more rigor into K-12 education, push students to compete better with those in other top-performing countries and allow for more accurate ...

CONCORD — They are two of the most well-established experts on educational policy in the country and in many ways have come to represent the pro and the con when it comes to Common Core State ...

EPPING — Critics of national Common Core education standards urged residents to make their voices heard by bringing their concerns over the effort to improve academics to local school boards and ...

The more people hear about Common Core, the more controversial it becomes. Massachusetts would rather spend millions of dollars and delay testing by a year than stick with a test aligned with Common ...