The people who came up with the idea of the Common Core saw reading comprehension as a content-neutral set of skills, leading to massive confusion. The Common Core may be the most misunderstood ...

Review of Common Ground on Common Core: Voices from across the Political Spectrum Expose the Realities of the Common Core State Standards, Kirsten Lombard, ed., Resounding Books, 2014, 436 pages: ...

Think about the major policy undertakings of the Obama administration over the past six and a half years. It began with a “stimulus” that wasted trillions in the quest of generating jobs, but did ...

The Common Core State Standards are a set of learning standards in English Language Arts and mathematics adopted by Oklahoma legislators in 2010. These standards, if adopted by a state, will replace ...

Supporters of the Common Core State Standards are moving to confront increasingly high-profile opposition to the standards at the state and national levels by rallying the private sector and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Note to Republican presidential candidates: Congress passed, with broad bipartisan support, an education law that specifically says the federal government cannot push academic ...

Opponents have spoken out against the standards at state school board and interim legislative meetings, and coalesced into a group called Stop Common Core Nevada. Some are working with lawmakers in ...

Forty-five states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core State Standards, promising full implementation by the 2014-15 school year. While most of the discussion about the Common ...

Those readers who’ve been at this long enough will recall—in painful, vivid detail—the Common Core State Standards imbroglio that dominated education in the first half of the 2010s. At times, the ...