Route 66, America’s most celebrated highway, is something altogether different today. It is no longer “the best” way to get from Chicago to the West Coast. In many places, the historic road is buried ...

The Common Core State Standards are a set of high-quality academic standards in mathematics and English-language arts (ELA). The standards outline “the knowledge and skills all students should master ...

This is another story in KPCC's ongoing series, Classroom Core, that takes a close look at how the Common Core teaching standards are playing out in schools in Southern California. Four years into ...

Under Common Core, it takes far too long for a teacher to show a student how to do simple addition, said Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. In 2013, the Texas Legislature passed a law prohibiting school ...

ST. GEORGE – As Utah students continue with their third year of math education under the Common Core standards set by the state, the resources to help teachers with instruction are becoming more ...

In high schools across Denver, chemistry teachers are working from a new set of lessons. The topic: “Should the United States say yes or no to nuclear power?” On their way to answering that question, ...

Union School District has put together a teacher education program with the goal of ensuring that its teachers are not just well-versed in Common Core, but continue learning and improving their ...

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The Common Core State Standards are dead. Done. Finished. Authorities have told us so. Betsy DeVos delivered a brief eulogy at the American Enterprise Institute earlier this month. “And at the U.S.