There are few better ways to end the week than with a good laugh. This week, a short story on McSweeney’s poked some gentle fun at what the common-core debate sounds like for people outside the ...

Washington, D.C. — The Center for American Progress and comedy website Funny or Die have teamed up to bring humor and levity to the debate over the Common Core State Standards with a new video ...

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 ...

For a while, the Common Core State Standards seemed to teeter on the brink of the abyss. State lawmakers were defecting left and right, convening committees to rewrite the standards. But a review ...

This article first appeared on the Brookings site. When Jeb Bush announced he was exploring a run for president, Time warned that Bush was "going to have to win over the Republican conservative base, ...