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 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 ...

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: ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Low-rated teachers in New York won’t be at risk of losing their jobs based simply on student performance on the new Common Core tests — at least for a few years — under legislation ...

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 ...