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 ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. MIAMI, FL — When Gov. Rick Scott announced last week he was pulling Florida out of a multi-state consortium working to create ...

QUEEN CREEK, Ariz.– When teachers here prepare lessons on the new Common Core standards, a website connects them with explanations, quizzes and other resources shared by dozens of school districts and ...

Assemblyman Steve Hawley, R-Batavia, on Monday helped roll out the Assembly Minority conference’s APPLE Plan to reform the controversial Common Core school curriculum. The APPLE Plan, which stands for ...

In 2010, a who’s who of American educators and politicians joined forces to spearhead a national initiative with wide appeal and few, if any, critics. It was called the Common Core. The pols and ...

SANBORN – Assemblyman John D. Ceretto, a co-sponsor of legislation to repeal the Common Core school curriculum standards in New York, has called a public meeting for 6 p.m. Monday at Niagara County ...

MIDDLETOWN, Del. (AP) – Remembering the plot of a short story is no longer good enough in teacher Amy Lawson’s fifth-grade classroom. Today’s students are being asked to think more critically. For ...