It’s been a rough year for the Common Core standards. As parents, teachers, officials, and politicians learn more about the standards, more and more states are considering ways to get out of Common ...

The Common Core State Standards began in 2009 as a state-led effort to measure the nation’s students against a shared benchmark. At first, the standards received broad acceptance. Education leaders ...

According to the calendar, it’s only two-thirds of the way through winter. But the spring testing season has begun. Tests in many states are being given earlier than they were last year, and that’s ...

As many educators and researchers will attest, there’s no exact science to choosing vocabulary words—no inherent reason the word “detest” is more important to teach than “despise,” or why “compassion” ...

Heather Clydesdale on how world language teachers can align their curriculum with the Common Core State Standards. This article covers a breakout session on that very topic from the 2015 National ...

The learning standards were new. The textbooks were not. So curriculum director Tammy Baumann and her team took the books apart, literally. Then they rearranged lessons, filled in holes with outside ...

Paul Halley recently wrote in a letter to the editor that New Jersey’s teacher shortage could be resolved if the state did away with Core Curriculum Standards. (The federal program, which started in ...

Advocate staff photo by BRAD BOWIE -- Judith Cain, an eighth grade math teacher at Paul Breaux, answers a question during a summer training session for math teachers from around Lafayette parish at ...

A coalition of education groups is holding free summer workshops for teachers statewide to address a major challenge with the learning standards known as the Common Core: many instructors don't know ...