After a delay of nearly a week, the Florida Department of Education has released examples that it says backs up its rejection of dozens of math textbooks because they contained questions and exercises ...

For a while, the Common Core State Standards seemed to teeter on the brink of the abyss. State lawmakers were defecting left and right, convening committees to rewrite the standards. But a review ...

The Common Core State Standards, often referred to as ”Common Core” are a set of educational standards that describe what students should know and be able to do in English language arts and math in ...

A draft of grade-by-grade common standards is undergoing significant revisions in response to feedback that the outline of what students should master is confusing and insufficiently user-friendly.

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. In 2017, North Carolina adopted new math and reading standards, after deciding to ...