Two teachers attempt to set the record straight on the instructional shifts required by the common standards.

In this chat, Kathy T. Glass, author of Mapping Comprehensive Units to the ELA Common Core Standards, discussed how to translate the new Reading/ELA standards into effective curriculum units. She ...

For years now, the Common Core State Standards have been at the center of a national controversy over public education. Supporters say the standards, being used in most states, will improve public ...

The Common Core State Standards was one of the biggest initiatives in decades aimed at changing public education — and like many school “reforms” in the era of high-stakes standardized ...

The Common Core standards do not promote the analytical thinking fostered by literary study and are more likely to promote an agenda.

Under the new Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts, students are learning to dissect, analyze, and comprehend the type of complex reading they will encounter in college and the ...

The state school board folded Common Core into the state's College and Career Ready Standards for public schools and has been defending the decision ever since. Legislators introduced bills in ...

Common Core was described as a "state-led process to develop common standards in English Language Arts and Mathematics for grades K-12 which are intentionally benchmarked and aligned to college ...

Florida Common Core standards: A Florida educator who has embraced the Common Core, breaks down the arguments it in Florida and nationally.

The Common Core State Standards, or CCSS, represent a potential reboot for standards-based reform—an opportunity to address some of the design flaws that have diminished the policy’s ...