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The Common Core math standards have poured gasoline on the math “reform” fire that has raged for the past 20-plus years. This is particularly true since the national dialogue about Common Core has ...

Nick Storz is a government student at Patrick Henry College and an intern with the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation. John Schoof is a research associate at the Center for ...

Although Common Core State Standards were adopted in Massachusetts in 2010, the topic is still a lightning rod for impassioned critique and opinion. There is even an initiative, “End Common Core MA,” ...

Purveyors of the inquiry-based and student-centered math agenda, which has persisted for more than 20 years, argue traditionally taught math has never worked for the vast majority of the nation’s ...

As California moves ahead with implementation of its Common Core standards, it is coming up against a major challenge long-anticipated by education leaders: ensuring that teachers across the state ...

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After a long and frustrating homework session with his 2nd grade son one day last school year, Jeff Severt dashed off a letter to the teacher. “I have a bachelor of science degree in electrical ...

ALBANY — New York education leaders approved English and math standards Monday for students in prekindergarten through 12th grade, not quite replacing but substantially revising the controversial ...

This post was originally posted on the Curriculum Matters blog. Earlier this week, Louisiana legislators approved a new set of academic standards to replace the Common Core State Standards, reports my ...

Kathy Liu Sun is an assistant professor of math education at Santa Clara University who was a public high school math teacher for nine years in San Jose, California. She argues in the following post ...

Cookies and math tend to go together in an elementary school classroom. And not always as reward for a correct answer. Teachers use them as conceptual props to explain an operation like division. It ...