At least, that was the rep on new tests aligned to the Common Core State Standards that millions of U.S. kids took last spring. Now you can be the judge. There are now a slew of actual math and ...

More than a million students across the country have traded their No. 2 pencils, test booklets, and bubble sheets for computing devices to participate in a pilot of math and English/language arts ...

Pierre the Pelican remembered the word "prism" has a special use in mathematics. Did you? (Michael DeMocker, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) Tuesday's Common Core fifth-grade mathematics question ...

Pierre the Pelican "checks his answers" against Pelicans center Jason Smith as they answer sample questions from a new Common Core test on Friday, March 7, 2014. (Michael DeMocker, NOLA.com | The ...

According to the calendar, it’s only two-thirds of the way through winter. But the spring testing season has begun. Tests in many states are being given earlier than they were last year, and that’s ...

With New York State ready to hand out the Common Core exam this spring, how tough is the test? See how much math you remember from grade school with these sample questions from the Grade 4 Mathematics ...

The Jindal administration has renewed charges that Common Core tests plans pushed by top state education leaders may be illegal. But an attorney for the state’s top school board Friday denounced the ...

The California Board of Education (CBOE) has decided not use Common Core test scores in school performance assessments for the first year of testing. CBOE suspended the state’s Academic Performance ...

One of the two-state consortia behind new, Common Core-aligned tests has released questions from its spring assessments. They're hard. At least, that was the rep on new tests aligned to the Common ...