Common Core backers are sneaking a social and political agenda into nationalized curriculum, say critics, who now have new ammo in a writing lesson plan for teachers that they say gives a slanted ...

Jolene Walter learned about the shortcomings of Common Core the hard way. Walter, a graduate student at the University of Rochester Warner School of Education, had to try to implement these ...

Think of it as America's first national lesson plan -- coming soon to a public school near you. Lessons based on the nation's new Common Core standards are being taught in Long Island's classrooms on ...