In the spring of 2015, California began administering Smarter Balanced assessments, annual standardized tests in math and English language arts aligned with the Common Core standards. Last school year ...

Forty-one states, including California, have adopted the Common Core State Standards in math and English language arts. The standards describe the knowledge and skills that students should master by ...

A teaching approach that emphasizes problem-solving, collaboration and high expectations in mathematics is a strong approach, ...

Those days predated the Common Core math standards, which arrived in 2010 and put forward a central idea: Students should know why they arrived at an answer, and that is just as important as getti ...