New York leaders have approved a new set of reading and math expectations for students, moving the state a step away from the Common Core State Standards, which are still in use in some 36 states. The ...

Diane Ravitch, historian of education at New York University and outspoken critic of education choice, wrote in a New York Times op-ed, “The Common Core Costs Billions and Hurts Students.” The Common ...

The common-core standards in English/language arts and mathematics are generally aligned to the leading state standards, international standards, and university standards at the high-school-exit level ...

After a delay of nearly a week, the Florida Department of Education has released examples that it says backs up its rejection of dozens of math textbooks because they contained questions and exercises ...

Cursive-writing requirement among the most significant changes to standards Board vote concludes nearly two years of deliberation on Arizona's learning standards State Superintendent Diane Douglas ...