For nearly an hour, Dowan McNair-Lee has been walking her 8th grade English/language arts students through ways to identify the central idea of a text. She’s come at it from several angles, and no ...

Congress is on the verge of finally approving a rewrite of the education law known as No Child Left Behind. The Senate is expected to pass it easily tomorrow. The House did so last week, and the ...

Should schools teach cursive handwriting? The question is an impressively polarizing one in the K-12 education world. One of the most widely cited criticisms of the Common Core State Standards is that ...

Students at the Mason Classical Academy in Naples, Florida, did rank highly among schools in the local district for English Language Arts and Mathematics in 2017, and their scores improved from the ...

The Common Core State Standards are dead. Done. Finished. Authorities have told us so. Betsy DeVos delivered a brief eulogy at the American Enterprise Institute earlier this month. “And at the U.S.

In math, students extend their understanding of place value to the hundreds place. They use this to solve word problems, such as those involving length and other units of measure. Students add and ...

Some students taking this year’s statewide math tests assessing their knowledge of Mississippi's Common Core-linked standards may have received flawed practice tests. This is the first year schools ...

Jude Schwalbach is a research associate and project coordinator in education policy at The Heritage Foundation. After less than 10 years in the classroom, Common Core could soon be on its way out. The ...

We've all seen the jokes about Common Core fails and heard parents lament about not being able to help their children with homework under the complex new math standards, but few people seem to ...

UPDATE: The Mississippi Department of Education released the following statement late Thursday: "“In a continued effort to provide Mississippi parents, teachers and students with high-quality ...

COLUMBIA - KOMU 8 News learned Thursday some local students will take practice tests this spring to help school districts evaluate if they are ready to give new computerized tests next year. Students ...