Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. MIAMI, FL — When Gov. Rick Scott announced last week he was pulling Florida out of a multi-state consortium working to create ...

The 22-state consortium that is developing Common Core math and English tests for K-12 students will soon no longer be a cheap date for South Carolina taxpayers. After a four-year, $175 million ...

Florida may still use national Common Core tests even though Gov. Rick Scott signed an executive order on Sept. 23 limiting the state’s involvement with them. Scott raised concerns about Florida’s use ...

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s three children will take the tests associated with Common Core when Louisiana schools start testing next week, The News-Star of Monroe reports. Jindal has become a vocal ...

The vast majority of states have adopted Common Core academic standards, but individual states are still setting different definitions of "proficient" on annual math and reading tests, according to a ...

As Monday approached, social media in Central lit up with parents making the last-minute decision to have their kids skip the first day of Common Core standardized tests. The number of opt-outs stood ...

NASHUA — A proposal to delay the Common Core high-stakes assessment tests and reconsider other aspects of the educational reform movement is on the agenda for special Board of Education meeting ...

One in six New York students opted out of federally-mandated math or English Language Arts tests this spring. New data sheds light on which types of students opted out of those tests aligned with the ...

Here’s a fun mental exercise: The LSATs, the notoriously grueling law school entrance exams, take only about four hours to complete. Now imagine sitting down for an exam twice as long at half the age.

The questions, taken from a Common Core fourth-grade reading test, came to a Columbia professor in an email from an anonymous teacher, part of a blistering critique of the exam. The professor put the ...

See Correction/Clarification at the end of this article. Student scores rose on Common Core tests, but focus might remain on number of students who didn't take the test. This year's release of ...