Political expediency is terrible policy. This idiom is crystal clear when it comes to the criticisms of the Common Core. To hear the cynics tell it, repealing the Common Core learning standards is as ...

A group of parents in the Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake Central School District is banding together to advocate against the Common Core learning standards. Tricia Kaiser Farmer, whose children are ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The University at Buffalo’s Graduate School of Education will take a leading role helping teachers prepare for Common Core Learning Standards, adding to the coalition of educators in ...

We’ll be examining a subject that has very real-world implications for this and future generations in a two-part story that starts this week: the new Common Core Learning Standards. On page 1 ...

The learning standards were new. The textbooks were not. So curriculum director Tammy Baumann and her team took the books apart, literally. Then they rearranged lessons, filled in holes with outside ...

Second question: Does it, nonetheless, represent an improvement in education and a legitimate and important effort to ensure that American children are equipped to thrive in an increasingly ...