WASHINGTON (AP) - Most of the states that first endorsed the Common Core academic standards are still using them in some form, despite continued debate over whether they are improving student ...

The Common Core State Standards is a new initiative that outlines literacy and mathematics expectations for K-12 schools across the country. iStock For all of their superficial similarities, the ...

See Correction/Clarification at the end of this article. Student scores rose on Common Core tests, but focus might remain on number of students who didn't take the test. This year's release of ...

Experts for and against national Common Core education standards debated sharply Monday before Indiana lawmakers. The first of three hearings of a legislative summer study committee on Common Core ...

More than 40 states have adopted the Common Core State Standards, new national academic benchmarks in reading and math. But the Common Core has become the center of a highly contentious debate ...

Louisiana’s top school board may have delayed the consequences of shifting to Common Core educational standards, but its action won’t stall efforts by legislators to jettison use of the standards ...

When we talk about Common Core — and we certainly talk about it a lot these days — sometimes I wonder whether we’re talking about education at all. Gov. Bobby Jindal’s gradual but ultimately total ...

More than 250,000 students across the country have opted out of taking the standardized tests which measure proficiency in math and language arts More than 250,000 students across the country have ...

This summer, a wave of heat is sweeping across US school districts as both legislators and right-wing groups push back against the alleged incursion of Critical Race Theory into schools. Some of the ...

Next month, a panel of University of California professors in the sciences and math will give their recommendations on the contentious issue of how much math high school students should know before ...

JEFFERSON CITY • Ten minutes before a work group tasked with developing elementary school social studies standards began its Thursday meeting, members ran through the list of absentees. Heavy rain ...