As her school shifts to address Common Core State Standards, one foreign language teacher finds opportunity for greater collaboration. Heather Clydesdale reports. In evolutionary terms, it’s called a ...

More than a million students across the country have traded their No. 2 pencils, test booklets, and bubble sheets for computing devices to participate in a pilot of math and English/language arts ...

Since coming to office, the Obama Administration has been intent on standardizing what is taught at each grade level in all of the nation’s schools. It has used its flagship “Race to the Top” ...

Common Core, the state standards education initiative that is being developed across the country, was the focus of PW’s Discussion Series, held at Random House on April 10 in front of a sold-out ...

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The project prioritized the needs of English-language learners. Teachers drew up step-by-step strategies to assist students with various levels of English proficiency. "We wanted vulnerable ...

The two words don’t appear anywhere in the more than 150 pages of the state’s new math and reading goals. “Common Core standards in South Dakota are officially gone,” said state Secretary of Education ...

The Common Core State Standards have vaulted into the national consciousness lately thanks to some high-profile dissenters, like Louis C.K. ("Kids teachers parents are vocally suffering.") and Stephen ...

Morgan Polikoff receives funding from the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, through Grant R305C150007 to the University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education. The ...