In high schools across Denver, chemistry teachers are working from a new set of lessons. The topic: “Should the United States say yes or no to nuclear power?” On their way to answering that question, ...

As Dickson County moved toward implementation of the English Language Arts Common Core Standards during the 2013-2014 school year, Dickson Middle School has worked hard to incorporate common core ...

Educators preparing for Common Core State Standards will now have access to tools aligning financial literacy curriculum to the new standards, according to a release from the Council for Economic ...

In this blog, part of the series on the implementation of the Common Core, we talk with Catherine Snow, Patricia Albjerg Graham Professor of Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education and a ...

To help teachers better understand what the Common Core State Standards will mean for classroom instruction, we hosted a Common Core Teacher Institute following the 2013 Education Nation Teacher Town ...

Separate the Common Core from the money, from the tests, from the politics, from biased textbooks and lesson plans. When the national standards stand independently from federal control and when you ...

The people who came up with the idea of the Common Core saw reading comprehension as a content-neutral set of skills, leading to massive confusion. The Common Core may be the most misunderstood ...

The Common Core lists skills students need to master at each grade level without specifying any particular knowledge they need to acquire. That works for math, but it could be a fatal flaw when it ...

In math, students extend their understanding of place value to the hundreds place. They use this to solve word problems, such as those involving length and other units of measure. Students add and ...

AL.com’s Education Lab team is supported by individual donors and grants. Learn more about our work and sign up for our newsletter. Alabama Sen. Arthur Orr, R-Decatur, is backing a plan to improve ...

The Common Core tests known as PARCC (because they were created by the multi-state Partnership for Assessment of Readiness of College and Career) have been hit with some bad news lately. Last month, ...