*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Regarding "Common Core stirs fear and distrust" (May 12): Why shouldn’t parents and taxpayers be wary of President Obama further ...

Lair, chairman of Missouri’s House Appropriations Committee on Education, inserted an $8 budget line item to mock Common Core critics as tinfoil hat-wearing conspiracy theorists. Lair’s item reads: ...

FLORISSANT • The 40 parents sat in child-sized chairs inside the library of Barrington Elementary School and watched intently as a fourth-grade teacher wrote a problem on the smartboard. Then she ...

I take umbrage to Kevin Brinegar's suggestion that ordinary members of the Tea Party are crazy conspiracy theorists incapable of discerning what ill-conceived, federalized educational junk called ...

The Common Core State Standards may have initially been accepted when many states agreed to adopt the education initiative in 2010, but the years haven’t necessarily been kind to the education ...

Utah incumbent Gov. Gary Herbert (R) will begin his third term after switching positions on Common Core during a contentious campaign for the Republican nomination. Formerly a proponent of the Common ...

ATLANTA — Georgia's current education standards are coming to an end, as a new direction of learning is coming for grades K through 12. On Thursday, the state's board of education approved State ...

Under Common Core, parents are likely to see some unfamiliar terms on their children's elementary-school math homework. Here are some examples drawn from New York state's math curriculum: Cindy says ...