Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifteen years after the calamitous rollout of the Common Core math standards, the once-derided strategy has proven its staying ...

Here's the thing: The Common Core standards don't specify the use of curricula, textbooks, workbooks or lesson plans — let alone particular math problems. (See #6, below). But in order to teach to the ...

What is Common Core? For simplification, I will limit this discussion to Common Core math. I am a retired electrical engineer. My major in college was, of course, engineering with a minor in ...

Susan Gilkerson, a math teacher and school bus driver, stood before a South Dakota education board and issued a warning. The ...

The Common Core State Standards is a states-led effort to set grade-level benchmarks, or standards, in math and reading that will be consistent across states. Currently, 44 states and the District of ...

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 ...

The state Board of Education adopted the Common Core Standards for New Hampshire two years ago. Last week, Manchester school board members postponed a committee meeting at which Common Core would be ...

Model math standards produced by conservative education advocates helped spark a battle in South Dakota that could spread to other states.