It’s been a rough year for the Common Core standards. As parents, teachers, officials, and politicians learn more about the standards, more and more states are considering ways to get out of Common ...

The South Dakota Board of Education Standards on Monday adopted new curriculum standards for mathematics and health. The ...

The learning standards were new. The textbooks were not. So curriculum director Tammy Baumann and her team took the books apart, literally. Then they rearranged lessons, filled in holes with outside ...

Paul Halley recently wrote in a letter to the editor that New Jersey’s teacher shortage could be resolved if the state did away with Core Curriculum Standards. (The federal program, which started in ...

Inside one of Arkansas’ most critical care units, teams at UAMS are caring for some of the state’s smallest and most vulnerable patients while also working to i Tri-County Drug Task Force arrest leads ...

South Dakota’s education board approved revised math standards to replace Common Core-based language, even as educators ...

Advocate staff photo by BRAD BOWIE -- Judith Cain, an eighth grade math teacher at Paul Breaux, answers a question during a summer training session for math teachers from around Lafayette parish at ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. From Kristen Stephens, associate professor in Duke University’s Program in Education: ...

This article is the first of a three-part series on Common Core public outreach. The federal government is paying to promote controversial testing and curriculum mandates called Common Core, and so ...