Next year marks the 10-year anniversary of the Common Core State Standards; the Next Generation Science Standards have been around nearly as long. The majority of states have officially adopted one or ...

The Common Core State Standards mean big changes in classrooms across the country. This... is the sound of that change. Postcards From The Common Core Classroom Postcards From The Common Core ...

For nearly an hour, Dowan McNair-Lee has been walking her 8th grade English/language arts students through ways to identify the central idea of a text. She’s come at it from several angles, and no ...

As she wraps up class, fourth-grade teacher Rosalyn Bailey walks by each table, hovers over each child and points at the math assignment. “What’s two-tenths plus four-tenths?” Bailey asks one of her ...

The state’s highest court dealt a critical blow Friday to an effort to scrap the state’s adoption of the Common Core classroom standards, striking down a proposed November ballot question. In a ...

Forty six states have adopted the Common Core, but what will it really mean for the students, teachers and the nation's competitiveness? This session starts with a live teacher demonstration showing ...

You remember Common Core. First it was going to save the educational universe (and help lift a couple of political careers). Then it was going to turn all our children into gay communists. Then, most ...

Some people might hear the words common core standards and tune out immediately, but not at Deer Valley. Second grade teachers went above and beyond to make the common core of language arts learning ...

I recently had the pleasure of spending a few hours in a friend’s classroom where I introduced her students to technology applications that would engage them in “showing what they know” at different ...

Critics say Microsoft stands to benefit from the Common Core's embrace of technology and data - a charge Gates vehemently rejects. A group calling itself the "Badass Teachers Association," citing ...

All Jamestown eighth- or ninth-grade students, who are beginning their algebra instruction this school year, must take the new Common Core Algebra 1 Regents that will be given for the first time on ...