The Common Core State Standards, national standards adopted by Connecticut in 2010, promise to reflect "the knowledge and skills that our young people need for success in college and careers." This ...

More evidence that top-down, one-size-fits-all Common Core school standards lower the academic bar, especially in math, is provided by two educators who served on Common Core’s Validation Committee ...

Pearson PLC, the world’s largest education company, made a major miscalculation on the Common Core academic standards, expecting a windfall that failed to materialize as it headed into a downward ...

Common Core is the business community's answer to the failure of the education system to provide graduates in science, technology, math and engineering, courses of study commonly referred to as STEM.

I am very concerned that the Common Core math being taught in school is not preparing the students for the situations they will need upon graduation. My college major was a BS in Mathematics and ...

Review of Common Ground on Common Core: Voices from across the Political Spectrum Expose the Realities of the Common Core State Standards, Kirsten Lombard, ed., Resounding Books, 2014, 436 pages: ...

After several failed attempts by the state legislature to rid Ohio of Common Core, the Ohio General Assembly has tasked the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) with updating Ohio’s learning standards ...