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

A year after Rhode Island implemented Common Core across its public school systems, some parents and stakeholders in the debate have raised concerns about the initiative’s efficacy and interference ...

For almost the past four decades, academic standards have been a defining focus of efforts to improve student achievement. The movement for high academic standards—determinations of what students ...

PHOENIX — The two candidates for state superintendent of public instruction have strikingly different visions for the future of the Common Core State Standards in Arizona. Democrat David Garcia, an ...

The Department of Education then made adopting Common Core a condition for waivers from the No Child Left Behind Act’s accountability provisions, even though the national standards have never been ...

It’s vacation time for the nation’s school kids and, while they play, states are beginning to push back against the latest effort of the federal government to exert total control over the nation’s ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Education officials in most of the states that have adopted Common Core standards say they will go forward with the benchmarks for reading, writing and math despite objections, ...

MANCHESTER — The Board of School Committee voted Wednesday to have the district develop its own "Manchester Academic Standards," following months of debate over the adoption of the Common Core ...

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