Common Core seems like a good idea. In a society as mobile as ours, kids moving from one state to another should not be so far behind or ahead students in their new state. A common set of skills at ...

Decisions about standards should be made at the state and local level. The federal government has spent billions to move Common Core forward, and it has put billions more on the line. Unfortunately, ...

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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 ...