The Common Core State Standards is a new initiative that outlines literacy and mathematics expectations for K-12 schools across the country. iStock For all of their superficial similarities, the ...

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HUNTINGTON - The debate surrounding Common Core standards in West Virginia was far from over Thursday night at Marshall University. A town hall meeting regarding Common Core provided the opportunity ...

Last week, Arne Duncan, the secretary of education, picked just the right words to make a hot controversy even hotter. Like many education officials in both parties, Duncan is a defender of the Common ...

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush used a speech Thursday to the annual meeting of his Foundation for Excellence in Education to try to steer the conversation away from focus on the Common Core standards to ...

At the end of January I stood with my House Republican colleagues and called for public hearings on the Common Core Standards in the state legislature. This will finally allow parents, teachers, ...

This article is the third in a three-part series on Common Core public outreach. It’s not just the federal government and private foundations spending millions to promote Common Core as state and ...

Two education experts who are on both sides of Arizona’s Common Core debate are both saying that they like the idea behind a bill that’s now being considered in the Arizona Senate. Senate Bill 1035, ...

Sometimes choices aren’t clear-cut. But the selection that needs to be made with the Common Core academic standards is the exact opposite: It’s simple and obvious.