New national standards for math and English education offer the promise of more relevance to the real world and the ability to compare students' performance across state lines. But skeptics worry ...

Wyoming’s decision to adopt a set of national education standards in math and language arts may be a year old, but discourse on the learning goals was fresh among a crowd of parents, teachers and ...

Critics of Common Core education standards told Missouri House Interim Education Committee members Tuesday the guidelines lack rigor, are one-size-fits-all and allow the government to collect too much ...

Is Common Core Becoming Less Common? Back in 2010, 45 states agreed to adopt a single set of requirements for what K-12 children should know in each grade in math and English. Approximately 80 percent ...

Growing opposition to the Common Core academic standards for the nation’s public schools is threatening to slow down and derail the initiative. Forty-five states and the District of Columbia ...

As Butte public schools roll out the red carpet for the state-driven Common Core education standards, the expected backlash is seemingly tame. But still, opponents are grumbling. Curriculum Director ...

The state did not adopt Common Core, although several Alaska school districts did. Deputy Education Commissioner Les Morse said those districts will be held accountable for ensuring that student ...

Tucson-area school districts are getting ready for the state's more rigorous new "Common Core" education standards - but preparation is proving to be an individualized rather than standardized process ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — While the Common Core education standards provoked political backlash and testing boycotts around the country this year, the state that educates more public school children than ...

Fifth-grade teacher Dean Lapke shows his students how to figure out the order of operations for math problems involving exponents at Highland Elementary School in Billings last week. Students receive ...