One potential benefit of having the majority of states using the same standards (and most states still are using the Common Core State Standards, despite the public controversy about the standards and ...

The learning standards were new. The textbooks were not. So curriculum director Tammy Baumann and her team took the books apart, literally. Then they rearranged lessons, filled in holes with outside ...

Every so often, K-12 schooling witnesses the rise of an intuitive, easy-to-like, bipartisan reform push that’s backed by deep-pocketed funders and a lot of recognizable names. While this alignment of ...

Flexing billions of dollars of purchasing muscle, more than 30 of the nation’s largest districts have come together to say they will only buy common-core instructional materials that meet a set of ...

Two third- and fourth-grade English language arts and social studies teachers at Zachary Elementary — Jess McKowen Patti and Molly Bryan Talbot — were invited by William and Mary College to co-present ...

Lisette Partelow writes that there are many amazing Common Core-aligned lessons that can be used to teach the standards in fun, engaging ways. Common Core doomsayers often claim that rich, engaging, ...

It’s been five years since controversy peaked over the Common Core State Standards and their use in Catholic schools. What have we learned? By 2013 the Common Core was being adopted rapidly by ...