Growing opposition to the Common Core academic standards for the nation’s public schools is threatening to slow down and derail the initiative. Forty-five states and the District of Columbia ...

What is the current state of the Common Core, and what is its future? Moderator Michael McShane of AEI posed these questions to a group of experts at an AEI event on Wednesday. Frederick Hess of AEI, ...

It's almost impossible to make any statement about the Common Core State Standards without a challenge from one side or the other in the highly politicized debate that has surrounded the project since ...

Those readers who’ve been at this long enough will recall—in painful, vivid detail—the Common Core State Standards imbroglio that dominated education in the first half of the 2010s. At times, the ...

For almost the past four decades, academic standards have been a defining focus of efforts to improve student achievement. The movement for high academic standards—determinations of what students ...

The Indiana Senate on Thursday passed Senate Bill 193, a measure providing for public hearings around the state to reconsider adoption of Common Core education standards. The vote was 38–11, with all ...

Is Common Core Becoming Less Common? Back in 2010, 45 states agreed to adopt a single set of requirements for what K-12 children should know in each grade in math and English. Approximately 80 percent ...

Technology is getting more and more sophisticated at tasks which previously required human work. What technology can’t replace is innovation, spirit and the subtleties of human creativity. Despite ...

Alabama lawmakers are set to take a vote on a bill that supporters say will improve the state’s standing in math achievement in K-12 schools. The bill, called the Alabama Numeracy Act, is sponsored by ...

Hours before the House would pass a bill attempting to quell frustration with Common Core education standards on an 81-9 vote, Rick Womick spoke up. Womick has two bills targeting the political ...

PARCC administrators manual. The Louisiana Department of Education released new school-by. -school data on the test results on Thursday, Oct. 22. (Photo by Ty Wright, Associated Press.) (Ty Wright, ...