In math, students develop an understanding of rates and ratios, using tables, graphs and equations to solve real-world problems of proportional relationships. Students also work on solving multi-step ...

Want to help your seventh-grader master reading and writing? Here are some of the skills your child will be learning in the classroom in seventh grade. Explain what a story, play, poem, or ...

Under the Common Core State Standards, Algebra 1 is a much tougher course than what was taught previously in most states, teachers and standards experts say, in part because many of the concepts that ...

With full implementation of the Common Core State Standards just a year away, Florida is taking last-minute feedback from supporters and critics alike. Gov. Rick Scott, whose tea party base has been ...

Despite requiring some technology use, the Common Core State Standards for English/language arts don’t do enough to ensure that students become effective digital readers, some literacy experts say.

The Common Core State Standards have become a political hot potato. In some cases, a punching bag. (Pick your cliche.) But the fact remains that, in 43 states and the District of Columbia, the ...

NEW YORK – Every Saturday morning at 10 a.m., Jason Zimba begins a math tutoring session for his two young daughters with the same ritual. His youngest, Claire, 4, draws on a worksheet while his ...

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What a week for adversaries of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS)! On Wednesday Glenn Beck, famous radio and TV personality, hosted “a live national night of action against the Common Core” called ...