When Judy Schmid, a gym teacher at Jacobsville Elementary School in Pasadena, Md., teaches her students how to bowl, she has them score games manually, even though most modern bowling alleys have ...

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott issued an opinion yesterday related to the Common Core school standards, a voluntary national program Texas is not participating in. In spite of Texas' ...

A growing number of states are dropping the Common Core education standards. And several states committed to keeping the guidelines have postponed implementation. Jeffrey Brown talks to Rick Hess of ...

It's been called a federal curriculum, the end of literature lessons and even, here in Mississippi, a "Muslim takeover of schools." The Common Core, a set of math and English language arts standards ...

Last week, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan gave a speech to the Society of News Editors that Education Week called “The strongest defense yet of Common Core Standards.” In it, he said that the ...

The implementation of the Common Core State Standards has stirred up much controversy and debate. Some of this debate is healthy, particularly over how to develop rigorous, common standards and ...

As recent polling about misperceptions surrounding the Common Core State Standards has revealed, there’s a lot of heated rhetoric on offer in the discussion about the standards, as there is about many ...

Should schools teach cursive handwriting? The question is a polarizing one in the K-12 education world. One of the most widely cited criticisms of the Common Core State Standards is that they don’t ...