There is a shift away from teaching classic literature in the schools, according to a report by the Brown Center. Michael Godsey, a high school English teacher at San Luis Obispo High School in ...

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 ...

Wyoming’s decision to adopt a set of national education standards in math and language arts may be a year old, but discourse on the learning goals was fresh among a crowd of parents, teachers and ...

When she first heard about about Common Core two years ago, she heard the good things about it, the promises the program made to "raise the bar" on public education. "In reality it hasn't turned out ...

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 ...

New national standards for math and English education offer the promise of more relevance to the real world and the ability to compare students' performance across state lines. But skeptics worry ...

It's almost impossible to make any statement about the Common Core State Standards without a challenge from one side or the other in the highly politicized debate that has surrounded the project since ...

While Gov. Bobby Jindal is all over the map, flitting from state to state in pursuit of the dream of being on the Republicans’ 2016 presidential ticket, he’s also all over the place ideologically on ...

Is Common Core Becoming Less Common? Back in 2010, 45 states agreed to adopt a single set of requirements for what K-12 children should know in each grade in math and English. Approximately 80 percent ...

MANCHESTER — Former Education Secretary Bill Bennett, whose conservative credentials go back to the Reagan administration, brought his national campaign in support of Common Core to New Hampshire on ...