After spending last week in Washington, D.C., I was struck by how nervous folks in education circles are about whether states will stick with the Common Core state standards once the Common Core ...

The idea behind project-based learning long predates the Common Core. The concept, if not the name, first came into use more than 100 years ago, when education reformers challenged the rote ...

The Common Core State Standards arose from a simple idea: that creating one set of challenging academic expectations for all students would improve achievement and college readiness. But the idea ...

The common core can and should serve as a unique transformational opportunity for our nation’s teaching and learning systems. Educators who leverage these standards to teach and assess such ...

A new organization calling itself the “Consumer Reports” of K-12 textbooks has issued its first analysis of classroom materials in the age of the Common Core State Standards, and it found most ...

Project-based learning and the Common Core are a natural fit. At our school, this was one of the core ways we started to address the new standards. What comes to mind first for me are close reading, ...

If a sentence contains the phrases “New York state” and “Common Core,” chances are that somewhere between the two is the word “botched.” New York and California have taken opposite ...

Over the past four years, about 100 bills to curtail or repeal the Common Core learning standards were introduced in state legislatures across the nation. Five states today are replacing the ...

When asked in a recent survey, most New Yorkers said they supported higher learning standards. But, ask about the Common Core, which has higher learning standards, and the survey showed support ...

Is Common Core tougher on special education students? 03:49 NEW YORK - Nothing lights up 10 year-old Billy Flood's face brighter than when you talk to him about music. The pint-size Beatles fan ...

The new Common Core State Standards — a set of academic goals that were developed by the National Governors Association and […] Skip to content All Sections ...

There's never been any question that implementing the Common Core learning standards would cause significant growing pains. We and the members of the Board of Regents knew we'd encounter a good ...