The questions, taken from a Common Core fourth-grade reading test, came to a Columbia professor in an email from an anonymous teacher, part of a blistering critique of the exam. The professor put the ...

Nearly one year after Common Core tests sparked statewide controversy, this year’s version is being rolled out with little fanfare and few arguments. “I think all the hype and stuff like that has kind ...

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 ...

This is another story in KPCC's ongoing series, Classroom Core, that takes a close look at how the Common Core teaching standards are playing out in schools in Southern California. Redondo Beach ...

At least, that was the rep on new tests aligned to the Common Core State Standards that millions of U.S. kids took last spring. Now you can be the judge. There are now a slew of actual math and ...

Gov. Bobby Jindal on Friday urged Louisiana’s top school board to let students who plan to skip Common Core tests in March take alternate assessments. Jindal, in an unusual executive “order,” said ...