The 53 teachers gathered around tables here have been called to a new kind of jury duty. But they won’t be deciding whether a fellow citizen is guilty of a crime: Their charge is to pass judgment on ...

What is the Common Core? It is a series of grade-by-grade standards for English/language arts and math — what students should know at high school graduation, at the end of 11th grade, at the end of ...

Dina: Let me admit this up front: I can be a professional developer’s nightmare. I am a skeptical, informed, judgmental know-it-all, and can typically be found sitting in the back with my elbows ...

The Common Core State Standards state what students should master, but they are not a curriculum. Jumping from the standards to create lesson plans misses a crucial middle step of developing a ...

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Last year, only 34.5 percent of city students in grades 3 to 8 passed the math exams, and 29.4 percent passed in reading and writing. Overall, officials said, the scores inched up slightly from the ...

It's exactly what critics of the Common Core school curriculum warned about: Partisan political statements masquerading as English lessons finding their way into elementary school classrooms. Teaching ...