Common core is a controversial issue. Since its implementation in forty-five states across the US, many people support it, while a great deal of people stand opposed to it. That includes Idahoans ...

The state did not adopt Common Core, although several Alaska school districts did. Deputy Education Commissioner Les Morse said those districts will be held accountable for ensuring that student ...

It’s vacation time for the nation’s school kids and, while they play, states are beginning to push back against the latest effort of the federal government to exert total control over the nation’s ...

PHOENIX — The two candidates for state superintendent of public instruction have strikingly different visions for the future of the Common Core State Standards in Arizona. Democrat David Garcia, an ...

The Department of Education then made adopting Common Core a condition for waivers from the No Child Left Behind Act’s accountability provisions, even though the national standards have never been ...

A year after Rhode Island implemented Common Core across its public school systems, some parents and stakeholders in the debate have raised concerns about the initiative’s efficacy and interference ...

MANCHESTER — The Board of School Committee voted Wednesday to have the district develop its own "Manchester Academic Standards," following months of debate over the adoption of the Common Core ...

Arne Duncan, the secretary of education, picked just the right words to make an increasingly hot controversy even hotter. Like many education officials in both parties, Duncan is a defender of the ...

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 ...

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