BATON ROUGE – Not long ago, Jindal was a strong supporter of and used his political influence to get the state to adopt Common Core, the brainchild of the National Governor's Association and the ...

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WASHINGTON – The goal seemed bipartisan enough: Let's create national education standards so children schooled in Wisconsin are learning just as much as children in, say, Florida and Texas, so when ...

The common-core math standards require that students learn the standard algorithm for multi-digit adding and subtracting—you know, the process in which you line the numbers up vertically to add or ...

The Common Core State Standards have vaulted into the national consciousness lately thanks to some high-profile dissenters, like Louis C.K. ("Kids teachers parents are vocally suffering.") and Stephen ...

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 ...

An Iowa woman jokingly calls it "Satan's handiwork.'' A California mom says she's broken down in tears. A Pennsylvania parent says it "makes my blood boil.'' What could be so horrible? Grade-school ...

My opposition to Common Core math is based on the fact that it is marketed as raising the bar on math standards and was designed to ensure students are “college and career ready.” These statements are ...

Right now, America's schools are in a sprint. Forty-four states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core State Standards. That means new learning benchmarks for the vast majority of ...

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