Common Core - the dreaded C-words, as some might call it. It should be no surprise that as an education writer I've been keeping tabs on the latest developments of the major school standards reform ...

Deputy Education Commissioner Les Morse said those districts will be held accountable for ensuring that student learning is in line with the state standards in English, language arts and reading that ...

BATON ROUGE, La. - Gov. Bobby Jindal sought Wednesday to derail Louisiana's use of standardized tests tied to the Common Core education standards, but state education leaders say the governor's ...

Calling them a federal "dictate," Sen. Al Melvin convinced Republican colleagues in the Senate to vote today to scrap the Common Core standards that the state and schools adopted just four years ...

ATLANTA — Georgia's current education standards are coming to an end, as a new direction of learning is coming for grades K through 12. On Thursday, the state's board of education approved State ...

Growing opposition to the Common Core academic standards for the nation’s public schools is threatening to slow down and derail the initiative. Forty-five states and the District of Columbia ...

As Butte public schools roll out the red carpet for the state-driven Common Core education standards, the expected backlash is seemingly tame. But still, opponents are grumbling. Curriculum Director ...

Critics of Common Core education standards told Missouri House Interim Education Committee members Tuesday the guidelines lack rigor, are one-size-fits-all and allow the government to collect too much ...

The ambition of Common Core is “quite broad,” said Jonathan Supovitz, co-director at the Consortium for Policy Research in Education at the University of Pennsylvania. He said the standards have the ...

It's almost impossible to make any statement about the Common Core State Standards without a challenge from one side or the other in the highly politicized debate that has surrounded the project since ...

For almost the past four decades, academic standards have been a defining focus of efforts to improve student achievement. The movement for high academic standards—determinations of what students ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Education officials in most of the states that have adopted Common Core standards say they will go forward with the benchmarks for reading, writing and math despite objections, ...