Route 66, America’s most celebrated highway, is something altogether different today. It is no longer “the best” way to get from Chicago to the West Coast. In many places, the historic road is buried ...

State-mandated tests must by state law be based on a state’s official standards. That is why the tests currently given in the Bay State (aka MCAS 2.0) are aligned to Common Core. MCAS 2.0 tests are ...

Even as the Common Core State Standards are being put into practice across most of the country, nearly half of teachers feel unprepared to teach them, especially to disadvantaged students, according ...

Our celebrity panel's results for the Common Core sample quiz question No. 6. Common Core puts a new emphasis on nonfiction -- as you can see from Monday's three-point question, which might have made ...

Our celebrity panel for the Common Core sample quiz aced Question No. 1, starting the 10-question quiz off with a four-way tie. (Dan Swenson, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) Our celebrity panel aced ...

This article is the second of three in a series on Common Core public outreach. A coalition of private foundations has spent approximately $2.5 million to promote Common Core, primarily by teaching ...

Cursive-writing requirement among the most significant changes to standards Board vote concludes nearly two years of deliberation on Arizona's learning standards State Superintendent Diane Douglas ...

A correction to an earlier version of this article has been appended to the end of the article. When Veera Sinha was a little girl in India, her father asked his kids to solve math puzzles in their ...

Should schools teach cursive handwriting? The question is a polarizing one in the K-12 education world. One of the most widely cited criticisms of the Common Core State Standards is that they don't ...

COLUMBIA - KOMU 8 News learned Thursday some local students will take practice tests this spring to help school districts evaluate if they are ready to give new computerized tests next year. Students ...

Some say the Common Core has sparked a new focus on content in the classroom. Others say it's intensified the focus on comprehension "skills." The answer depends on where you look. The Common Core ...