New national standards for math and English education offer the promise of more relevance to the real world and the ability to compare students' performance across state lines. But skeptics worry ...

South Dakota’s education board approved revised math standards to replace Common Core-based language, even as educators raised concerns about errors and misalignment.

The new president of the Louisiana Association of School Superintendents praised Common Core but said Monday that state education leaders bungled the rollout of the new academic standards. “The ...

Jack Markell, the governor of Delaware, co-chaired the Common Core Standards Initiative. Over the past three years, 45 states have adopted the Common Core State Standards. These objectives were ...

Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s recent comments disparaging “white suburban moms” for protesting new national tests and curriculum mandates are not the isolated remarks of an out-of-touch elitist.

North Carolina legislators have introduced a proposal that would require their state to examine national Common Core education standards. Over the last few years, North Carolina and 44 other states ...

The chair of Ohio’s House Education Committee, Richard Ross, recently promised to fight “kicking and screaming” against any efforts to prevent implementation of the “Common Core” education standards.

Supporters of the new Common Core education standards adopted by 45 states say the standards hold American students to much higher expectations, and move curriculum away from a bubble-test culture ...

Calling them a federal "dictate," Sen. Al Melvin convinced Republican colleagues in the Senate to vote today to scrap the Common Core standards that the state and schools adopted just four years ...

John Barge, Georgia’s state school superintendent and a trained educator, clearly knows the value of the Common Core education standards to Georgia’s future. Back in 2011, in an address to Georgia ...