Compiled by a team of teacher researchers, a digital curriculum platform is adding more than 750 free, Common Core-aligned lesson plans in math and English language arts for grades 2 to 12. The lesson ...

Still not implementing the Common Core The report’s authors describe how the implementation of Common Core State Standards could help increase student reading levels, since CCSS texts for ELA ...

Some of the biggest critics of new lesson plans aligned with the national Common Core standards are the people charged with teaching them. A growing number of teachers say the national standards, ...

Disappointed by existing English/language arts curricula that were supposedly aligned to the Common Core State Standards, officials at the Louisiana education department decided to enlist teachers and ...

A new study found that teachers are mainly relying on homegrown instructional materials, created either by themselves or their district colleagues, to meet the Common Core State Standards. But as many ...

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 ...

With fewer questions and no time limits, this month’s Common Core tests in English Language Arts and math will still be a challenge for city students. It’s the fourth year of the statewide exams that ...

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 ...

Not everything's a walk in the PARCC. So how did the field tests fare, according to the test administrators, test coordinators, and students who tested the test? The report found that overall, 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 ...

ELA teachers aren’t making the instructional shifts necessary for the Common Core According to a stunning report released today, “a huge percentage of ELA teachers” aren’t making the instructional ...