Elia outlined the budget, which calls for expanding universal pre-K, continuing to overhaul Common Core, supporting struggling schools, training teachers and administrators, expanding family and ...

It is premature to attribute gains in kindergarten readiness to basing pre-K on the common core curriculum introduced two years ago (“City’s revamped pre-K showing promise,” April 27).

Marissa Zellers reads a new Common Core-aligned text with her kindergarten students at Albert Einstein Elementary School in Redmond, Wash.

Sluyter’s letter was fresh evidence for groups of early-childhood educators who oppose the kindergarten expectations for math and English Language Arts, or ELA, set by the new Common Core, the ...

Lengthening kindergarten day among governor's priorities One of the education bills signed by the governor into law Tuesday would help school districts expand the state's pre-kindergarten program.

And the people who promote the Common Core need to send a message, fast, that this isn’t their intention. Hold up, as models, the kindergarten teachers who know how to work effectively through play.

A Core advocate in Nashville pushes standards for public schools but not private academy she oversees.

What it is: The state Department of Education sent to districts at the end of the school year the “CCSS Implementation Curriculum Evaluation Tool” to ensure they would have language arts and math ...

The problem, the author says, is not with any one standard or assessment stem—it’s with a checklist mentality.