Common Core may no longer be law in Oklahoma, but it has not disappeared from the classrooms. Heather Sparks, Oklahoma’s 2009 Teacher of the Year, teaches eighth-grade math. In her classroom at Taft ...

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin has until June 2 to sign a bill repealing and replacing national Common Core education mandates in her state, or it will receive a pocket veto. Fallin has traveled the ...

The Common Core State Standards are a set of learning standards in English Language Arts and mathematics adopted by Oklahoma legislators in 2010. These standards, if adopted by a state, will replace ...

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, and especially Rep. Gus Blackwell, for the invitation to speak today. I’m Joy Pullmann, a mother of three and education research fellow at The Heartland Institute, a ...

Michael Brickman, national policy director at the pro-Common Core Thomas B. Fordham Institute, said Thursday that while Indiana called for transitioning to new standards and South Carolina mandated a ...

As the battle over academic standards for Oklahoma public schools continues, districts brace for major changes in funding. Educators worry the repeal of Common Core without a rigorous replacement ...

The Oklahoma law completely scrubs Common Core from the state’s schools, reverting to standards in place before the state adopted Common Core in 2010. It directs the Oklahoma Board of Education to ...