Common core education standards are a hot potato for some conservative activists in Iowa. But they're seen as a good thing by the majority of Iowa adults, a new Des Moines Register Iowa Poll shows.

Iowa Core science standards shift from lectures, with their over-emphasis on textbook readings and “cookbook” labs, to learning through actively investigating, designing experiments ...

DES MOINES - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas had just left the stage at the Des Moines Marriott and walked into a gaggle of reporters. Cruz had been speaking Tuesday to an assembly of home-school ...

However Common Core ultimately plays in Iowa, the issue will likely resonate throughout the 2016 primary season as Republicans across the country have the opportunity to select a nominee.

The Common Core is impressing some Iowa educators. Kim Jones, curriculum and instruction coordinator for Lewis Central Community Schools in Council Bluffs, said Common Core has changed the way her ...

Iowa adopted the Common Core, making its standards part of the Iowa Core, in 2010 and is now one of 45 states and Washington, D.C., to do so. The Iowa Assessments, ...

MARSHALLTOWN — The State Board of Education unanimously approved the adoption of Common Core State Standards today, paving way for the development of common expectations among Iowa’s school ...

DES MOINES | The Iowa Department of Education has rolled out a series of training classes for teachers across the state this spring as Iowa moves toward adoption of the Iowa teachers to get Common ...

Still, it’s not yet clear if Common Core is really a deal breaker for Iowa voters. Republican Gov. Terry Branstad, a longtime supporter of the standards, ...

DES MOINES — Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas had just left the stage at the Des Moines Marriott and walked into a gaggle of reporters.

Iowa conservatives are continuing to fight the Common Core education standards, but it isn't clear that the program will go away at the state level any time soon.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, had just left the stage at the Des Moines Marriott and walked into a gaggle of reporters.