Washington, D.C. – The transition to the Common Core State Standards offers an important opportunity to replace America’s flawed and misaligned assessment system with better and fairer tests, ...

In less than three years, the Common Core State Standards have vaulted over three key hurdles, surprising more than a few naysayers. In June 2009, governors and education chiefs in 46 states pledged ...

Washington, D.C. — Public schools that significantly expand their schedules will be in a much stronger position to successfully implement the Common Core State Standards, the most rigorous English and ...

The Common Core State Standards are designed to have a transformative effect on teaching and learning in the United States. But, as we all know, the 46 states and the District of Columbia that have ...

It has been 23 years since the Nestle Chocolate Factory left Fulton. The century old business was seen as the lifeline for the once known "city with a future." SUNY Oswego at Syracuse: New name and ...

I’m glad US News and World Report is covering issues related to Common Core implementation rather than pushing the endless back and forth between supporters and opponents that most mainstream news ...

I have an article out today over at Education Next looking through the Common Core implementation glass darkly. As I say in the piece, for a variety of reasons (some of which were enumerated by Bill ...

The Michigan House passed a budget bill prohibiting the state department of education from using state money to implement the Common Core national education standards and associated tests. The Senate ...

Supporters of the Common Core repeal moving through the Alabama Legislature cite the state's poor performance on the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) as a reason for doing away with ...

Last week’s statewide release of the results of the new standardized assessments linked to Common Core educational standards amounted to a massive Rorschach test for the good citizens of California.