For nearly an hour, Dowan McNair-Lee has been walking her 8th grade English/language arts students through ways to identify the central idea of a text. She’s come at it from several angles, and no ...

Part 1 in a four-part series on reading in the Common Core era. The Common Core State Standards are changing what many kids read in school. They're standards, sure — not curriculum. Teachers and ...

COLUMBIA - KOMU 8 News learned Thursday some local students will take practice tests this spring to help school districts evaluate if they are ready to give new computerized tests next year. Students ...

Our celebrity panel's results for the Common Core sample quiz question No. 8. Last night, the Louisiana House Education Committee rejected two bills that would have halted Common Core and the test ...

Teachers who reported using at least one textbook aligned to the Common Core State Standards were more likely to report engaging students in key mathematical practices that those who didn’t, according ...

Our celebrity panel for the Common Core sample quiz aced Question No. 1, starting the 10-question quiz off with a four-way tie. (Dan Swenson, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) Our celebrity panel aced ...

We've all seen the jokes about Common Core fails and heard parents lament about not being able to help their children with homework under the complex new math standards, but few people seem to ...

The Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a right-tilted think tank and longtime staunch supporter of the Common Core, just released a survey of ELA teachers and some attendant conclusions about how the Common ...

A correction to an earlier version of this article has been appended to the end of the article. When Veera Sinha was a little girl in India, her father asked his kids to solve math puzzles in their ...