Normally, Sherry Geesaman wouldn’t be nervous. Normally, she’d flip open a plan book or a textbook and start riffing. That is, after all, what veteran educators do. And Geesaman’s been teaching for 20 ...

You've heard the complaints — now take a close look at a top-notch lesson plan. As we're detailing this week, teachers and school leaders have a lot of work to do to adopt curricula aligned with the ...

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 ...

The Common Core State Standards are alive and well and on the books in thirty-six states and the District of Columbia. But you’d basically never know it from reading states’ new plans to implement the ...

As a former student who came to school speaking only Spanish, elementary teacher Gabriela Orozco Gonzalez says she can relate to her Los Angeles-area students, who are mostly English learners. In her ...

and marked wrong by the teacher- has plenty of people talking, stirring up the debate once again on what standards are being taught as part of Common Core. The homework question was pretty simple: ...

Over the last couple years, several parents have earned social media fame (intentionally or not) by posting math problems from their children’s schoolwork online. One father claimed that despite his ...

Scott Richard, the Louisiana School Boards Association's executive director, criticized the Louisiana Department of Education's roll out of the Common Core educational standards. Louisiana's ...

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