Common Core is the first major reform initiative to deal with the front end of education -- the substance of what actually is being taught in the classroom, instead of focusing solely on student ...

Advocate staff photo by BRAD BOWIE -- Judith Cain, an eighth grade math teacher at Paul Breaux, answers a question during a summer training session for math teachers from around Lafayette parish at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifteen years after the calamitous rollout of the Common Core math standards, the once-derided strategy has proven its staying ...

Common Core (CC) K–12 math and English standards are lingering, despite concerted efforts by concerned parents and taxpayers to remove them. It is like a house with an underwater mortgage: The United ...

When the state released proposed revisions to Common Core last month, there were a lot of changes, but most seemed relatively small. In some cases wording was tweaked; in others, an existing standard ...

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 ...

That process, she said, will be gradual. Douglas said Common Core — or Arizona’s College and Career Ready Standards, as Gov. Jan Brewer renamed them to blunt opposition — will not only remain in place ...