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Common Core backers are sneaking a social and political agenda into nationalized curriculum, say critics, who now have new ammo in a writing lesson plan for teachers that they say gives a slanted ...

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The new “question-of-the-week” is: What do the Common Core Standards look like in Social Studies classrooms? In Part One of this series, Sarah Cooper, Michael Fisher, Ruchi Agarwal-Rangnath, Jody ...

Update: This story was updated June 4 with information on the timeline for revising the history and social studies frameworks. For history and social studies teachers in California, the Common Core ...

Advocates of social and emotional learning (SEL) can learn much from the travails that bedeviled Common Core. A close look at Common Core offers a number of telling parallels that SEL proponents would ...

This story about social studies instruction is part of a series about innovative practices in the core subjects in the early grades. Read about math, science and reading. It was produced by The ...

MONTGOMERY, Alabama-- Members of the Senate Education Committee declined today to listen to a graphic excerpt from from a novel associated with the Common Core State Standards Initiative. The ...

The Common Core State Standards have vaulted into the national consciousness lately thanks to some high-profile dissenters, like Louis C.K. ("Kids teachers parents are vocally suffering.") and Stephen ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: What do the Common Core Standards look like in Social Studies classrooms? The Common Core Standards are having a major impact on how our students our being taught - ...