Common Core — the new set of national education standards in math and English language arts — will take effect in most states next year. This move toward a single set of standards has been embraced by ...

VALLEY VIEW, Ohio -- The teacher on the video had clearly worked hard on her lesson. Before class, she had made a poster showing more than a dozen fractions and the topic of the day, the decimals and ...

Parents in Farmville, North Carolina want to know why their children were given a Common Core vocabulary assignment in an English class that promoted the Prophet Muhammad and the Islamic faith. “It ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: What Are Good Examples of Reading Lessons Aligned to Common Core Standards? Reading is obviously a big part of school, and it’s a big part of the Common Core ...

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