In 2010, a who’s who of American educators and politicians joined forces to spearhead a national initiative with wide appeal and few, if any, critics. It was called the Common Core. The pols and ...

The education standards in Wisconsin classrooms face an uncertain future. Over the weekend, governors from across the country met for the National Governors Association in Nashville. Education reform ...

What the public has heard about the controversy over national Common Core school standards largely fails to include the substance of that debate: whether the national curriculum and testing mandates ...

Common Core (CC) K–12 math and English standards are lingering, despite concerted efforts by concerned parents and taxpayers to remove them. It is like a house with an underwater mortgage: The United ...

SANBORN – Assemblyman John D. Ceretto, a co-sponsor of legislation to repeal the Common Core school curriculum standards in New York, has called a public meeting for 6 p.m. Monday at Niagara County ...

A controversial bill to repeal Ohio’s Common Core school standards died quietly this week without a vote, but educators and state legislators expect the issue to be revived next year in some form.

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Regarding "Missouri considers dropping Common Core school standards" (April 27): This is terrifying. For the first time in memory ...

LAFAYETTE — Common Core education standards, proposals to change local School Board governance and funding for roads and bridges are among the issues Lafayette-area legislators said they will continue ...

It is a frightening measure of courage, or rather lack of it, in Louisiana politics: Three of four leading candidates for governor quail before political pressure over Common Core school standards.

This is the third in a series. There was a time when some teachers mistook retaining information, such as memorizing facts, as learning. Fortunately, these days teachers know the value of making ...