As students across the country begin the school year, tutoring and test-prep companies are paying close attention to roll-out of the new Common Core standards. Backed by the federal government, the ...

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TAKING A BREAK: State Rep. Mark Danish will stop teaching at Benito Middle School while he runs for reelection. COMMON CORE: Three Pasco elementary schools will pilot Pearson Forward K-5, a Common ...

NEW YORK – Every Saturday morning at 10 a.m., Jason Zimba begins a math tutoring session for his two young daughters with the same ritual. His youngest, Claire, 4, draws on a worksheet while his ...

Right now, America's schools are in a sprint. Forty-four states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core State Standards. That means new learning benchmarks for the vast majority of ...

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 ...

Many people don't realize it's a set of standards, not a curriculum. NPR's Eric Westervelt talks with education reporter Cory Turner about other misconceptions about the Common Core standards. I'm ...

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