Cash-strapped state education budgets have another fiscal burden looming: the cost of implementing Common Core standards. Based on a range of state estimates, a reasonable estimate of the total ...

Despite the impact the implementation is having on teachers and schools, not many parents know what Common Core is all about. According to a September Gallup poll, almost two-thirds of Americans had ...

The Common Core State Standards began in 2009 as a state-led effort to measure the nation’s students against a shared benchmark. At first, the standards received broad acceptance. Education leaders ...

Common Core is a set of learning standards that emphasizes higher-ordered thinking skills, such as problem solving and evaluative thinking. The standards identify a set of skills, dispositions and ...

During the summer, I am sharing thematic posts bringing together responses on similar topics from the past 11 years. You can see all those collections from the first 10 years here. Today’s theme is ...

Brandy Zeringue speaks her mind as more than 100 parents gathered for a meeting to discuss their concerns and anger over the implementation of Common Core at Lake Harbor School in Mandeville, Tuesday, ...