In 2014, arts education groups released the National Core Arts Standards, a set of K-12 standards for visual art, music, dance, theater, and media arts. The National Core Arts Standards replace the ...

When Ellie Jacovino began teaching general music in Arizona six years ago, the state’s standards for arts dictated some of her classroom activities very specifically. Her kindergartners were to ...

Against the backdrop of a slideshow featuring artwork by public school students and amid live student performances of music, dance and theater at a downtown Santa Fe museum, New Mexico Public ...

BISMARCK -- Common Core math and English language-arts state standards have been drawing some questions, concerns and criticism. I appreciate the chance to clear up some confusion. North Dakota always ...

The National Coalition for Core Arts Standards will launch a final public review of the draft PreK-12 arts standards in dance, media arts, music, theatre and visual arts. The review opened Friday and ...

January 29, 2026 - In 1985, Merryl Goldberg went to the Soviet Union and met The Phantom Orchestra. To help them she made up a secret code, hidden in sheet music. Dr. Corinne Hyde, associate professor ...

Although the State Board of Education adopted new Common Core standards in math and English language arts nearly seven years ago, some school districts are still in the process of implementing them.

Topeka? The Common Core educational standards for reading and math, long a source of intense political controversy, will soon go by the wayside in Kansas. But they aren’t going away because of ...

Students in fine arts classes at Missoula schools might start to notice some common threads among band, theater, dance and art classes. Combs said one way the update is “significantly different” is ...

Remember “Common Core”? That term first appeared in 2010. It referred, at that time, to the controversial Math and English Language Arts Standards that Colorado, along with 41 other states, adopted ...

The two words don’t appear anywhere in the more than 150 pages of the state’s new math and reading goals. “Common Core standards in South Dakota are officially gone,” said state Secretary of Education ...

The State Board of Education voted Wednesday on new academic standards for Florida’s public schools, ending Florida’s rocky 10-year relationship with Common Core. Common Core standards spell out what ...