Heartland

A Common-Sense Approach to the Common Core Math Standards

An article by Elizabeth Green (CEO of a nonprofit education news organization called Chalkbeat) that recently appeared in the New York Times magazine, attempts to explain why most Americans are bad at ...
Heartland

Common Core and Critical Thinking: Sounds Good, but is it?

To briefly summarize Common Core, the decision to adopt the Common Core standards was left almost exclusively in the hands of the governors and the state boards of education. The public was not made ...
WRAL

Q&A: Common Core

Q: What is the Common Core? The Common Core state standards are benchmarks for what children should know in reading, writing and math from Kindergarten through Grade 12. School districts began ...
Education Week

In Transition to Common Core, Some High Schools Turn to ‘Integrated’ Math

Long a staple of the high school curriculum, the mathematics-course sequence of Algebra 1, geometry, and Algebra 2 is facing a budding challenge as schools transition to the Common Core State ...