New mathematics textbooks aligned with Common Core curriculum standards will be purchased for kindergarten through 12th-grade students in the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District this fall.

Eight years later, have the Common Core State Standards led to a revolution in how reading and writing are taught? Not exactly. Teachers have shifted practices dramatically on vocabulary and assigning ...

Editor’s note: Proponents of the Common Core State Standards – the most ambitious education reform in decades – say the standards will help close the nation’s achievement gap. Just how is that ...

Hope Township Elementary School teacher Lianne Markus leads parents in an exercise during a Common Core information session at the school, 320 Johnsonburg Rd., Wednesday night. Sarah Peters | ...