With the widespread adoption of the Common Core State Standards, public education in the United States is poised to take a major step forward in readying the next generation of Americans for success ...

This article is the second of three in a series on Common Core public outreach. A coalition of private foundations has spent approximately $2.5 million to promote Common Core, primarily by teaching ...

The Common Core State Standards may be implemented nationwide, but support for the standards has dropped to an all-time low. A new report conducted by Education Next (EdNext), a journal from the ...

Washington, DC – On Friday, January 31, the Center for American Progress and the National Center on Time & Learning will host an event to discuss how high-performing expanded-time schools provide ...

Common Core seems like a good idea. In a society as mobile as ours, kids moving from one state to another should not be so far behind or ahead students in their new state. A common set of skills at ...

Common Core supporters said Wednesday they submitted 6,000 signatures to Gov. Bobby Jindal’s office that show support for the new academic standards. “We have continued to hear the governor suggest ...

E.D. Hirsch was an educational conservative before educational conservatives were cool. Now a retired professor of education and humanities at the University of Virginia, Hirsch has been arguing for a ...

Clearly, he was suggesting states can and should do better than Common Core; though he still laughably and inconsistently referred to the “rigor” of these low-quality standards. Bush is obviously ...

UC President Janet Napolitano and three other leaders in California public and private higher education signed a letter Aug. 29 expressing support for the Common Core State Standards. After state ...

For some time now, outside groups have been vigorously spreading misinformation about the Common Core state standards, which offer a clear and consistent description of what students should know and ...

Poor John Huppenthal. OK, I didn’t mean that, he deserves everything he’s been getting lately. But the poor guy (didn’t mean it that time either) can’t catch a break. First, there are all those vile ...