It's crucial that Louisiana keep to its current path, some business leaders say. The Jefferson Chamber of Commerce, the Jefferson Business Council, the Council for a Better Louisiana, the Greater New ...

What is the current state of the Common Core, and what is its future? Moderator Michael McShane of AEI posed these questions to a group of experts at an AEI event on Wednesday. Frederick Hess of AEI, ...

Common Core - the dreaded C-words, as some might call it. It should be no surprise that as an education writer I've been keeping tabs on the latest developments of the major school standards reform ...

Wyoming’s decision to adopt a set of national education standards in math and language arts may be a year old, but discourse on the learning goals was fresh among a crowd of parents, teachers and ...

It's almost impossible to make any statement about the Common Core State Standards without a challenge from one side or the other in the highly politicized debate that has surrounded the project since ...

PARCC administrators manual. The Louisiana Department of Education released new school-by. -school data on the test results on Thursday, Oct. 22. (Photo by Ty Wright, Associated Press.) (Ty Wright, ...

Is Common Core Becoming Less Common? Back in 2010, 45 states agreed to adopt a single set of requirements for what K-12 children should know in each grade in math and English. Approximately 80 percent ...

The state did not adopt Common Core, although several Alaska school districts did. Deputy Education Commissioner Les Morse said those districts will be held accountable for ensuring that student ...

Growing opposition to the Common Core academic standards for the nation’s public schools is threatening to slow down and derail the initiative. Forty-five states and the District of Columbia ...

The new president of the Louisiana Association of School Superintendents praised Common Core but said Monday that state education leaders bungled the rollout of the new academic standards. “The ...

North Carolina legislators have introduced a proposal that would require their state to examine national Common Core education standards. Over the last few years, North Carolina and 44 other states ...