Common Core Standards advocates argued that simple computational tricks like “Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication/Division, Addition/Subtraction” or crossing off zeros when dividing don’t ...

Now there’s a piece of research to further support what many had already suspected—that Common Core and Core-linked high stakes testing came with a cost to the breadth of student learning.

Tom Loveless has long been a clear-eyed incisive critic of the Common Core State Standards. A year ago, he wrote In short, the evidence suggests student achievement is, at best, about where it ...

Common Core appears to have failed in its purpose of raising educational standards across the board. Instead, test scores are down and some states are weighing withdrawing from the program.

WESH 2 News spoke with school leaders about the governor's decision. "I know that it has been a sore point for a lot of parents who didn't understand Common Core and didn't know how to help their ...

The good old days of memorizing math formulas or multiplication tables are gone. Instead, Common Core math requires students to show how they reason their way to the right answer.

We’re not making any progress.” As shown by the 2017 scores, we’re still not. It’s unfortunate that no one warned education bureaucrats about the probable outcome of Common Core.

The Common Core State Standards Initiative, commonly known as Common Core, has provoked almost endless debate since the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama introduced it in 2010.

There is something for everyone to hate in the Common Core educational initiative: politics, subject matter, method. Are the criticisms fair? Naomi Schaefer Riley reviews ‘Common Core’ by ...

Although the State Board of Education adopted new Common Core standards in math and English language arts nearly seven years ago, some school districts are still in the process of implementing them.

Opposition by President Donald Trump and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to the Common Core is unlikely to slow implementation of the new standards in English language arts and math in states like ...