If player does not show correctly, click here to listen. In Annapolis yesterday, about two dozen parents staged a demonstration calling the state to delay or back out implementing the Common Core ...

Viewed from Washington, which often is the last to learn about important developments, opposition to the Common Core State Standards Initiative still seems as small as the biblical cloud that ariseth ...

After a decade in the making, the Common Core State Standards are on track to replace uneven state standards in English, mathematics, and other basic academic subjects. But as a rising number of ...

PARENT TRIGGER: Why it’s a bad long-term idea and good short-term idea. OBAMACARE: The U.S. Department of Education partially responds to several senators’ questions over its assistance implementing ...

One of the emails released in the Democratic National Committee leak shows communications staff directing video producers not to mention the Common Core educational standards in a video depicting ...

Wisconsin is in the midst of legislative hearings on the Common Core State Standards. During the first hearing on Oct. 3 in Madison, I shared an anecdote from a teacher in a small northern Wisconsin ...

COMMON CORE FORUM ON OCTOBER 26 Saturday, October 26; 1:30-3:30 p.m. Perdido Beach Resort Hotel 27200 Perdido Beach Boulevard, Orange Beach, AL With National Common Core Expert Emmett McGroarty, Esq.

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 ...