The common core is a set of education standards for K-12 public schools, adopted by Wisconsin in 2010. The standards apply to math and language arts. Now, some are questioning whether it’s a good ...

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 ...

Nick Storz is a government student at Patrick Henry College and an intern with the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation. John Schoof is a research associate at the Center for ...

2014-10-22T23:43:32-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/d77/20141022234520002_hd.jpgEducation experts talked about Common Core* standards and the U.S. education ...

Members of a state commission have identified their top priorities for revising the Common Core academic standards used for North Carolina's public school students. At a meeting Monday, they said they ...

Forty-eight states have joined a national effort to adopt common academic standards in mathematics and language arts. Lending momentum to that work, which is being led by the National Governors ...

Most people did not learn about Common Core education standards until after they already had been adopted by 45 states. As more details about Common Core have come to light, a growing number of ...

The Legislature has created special committees to study the Common Core academic standards. Wisconsin adopted the standards for math and English language arts three years ago and there are no other ...

DERRY — Helping teachers prepare students to become more proficient in mathematics and apply the concepts to real-world problems was the focus of a workshop Wednesday at Pinkerton Academy. High school ...

For five good reasons, conservatives should take seriously the potential of the newly released (in draft form) "common" education standards to strengthen U.S. education. First, they're good, solid — ...

Wouldn’t it be nice if all teachers had verifiably excellent instructional materials at their disposal and if every school and school district had a reliable guide as to which instructional materials ...