The Common Core standards grew out of an effort by governors and state school superintendents to define what all ... polled 1,676 pre-kindergarten through 12th grade public school teachers from 43 ...

Common Core textbooks: New York State is the epicenter of a transformation in the textbook industry that threatens the preeminence of publishing behemoths. Support nonprofit news $10/mo ...

Although the common-core standards are calibrated to ensure that students leave K-12 schools ready for work and college, they are also posing challenges for the educators who work with children ...

ALBANY — New York education leaders approved English and math standards Monday for students in prekindergarten through 12th grade, not quite replacing but substantially revising the ...

The Common Core has been presented as a paradigmatic shift beyond the test-and-punish policies of NCLB. However, we are seeing the mechanisms for testing, ranking, rewarding and punishing simply ...

The lost ELA standards, unlike Common Core, emphasized literature, changing technologies and prekindergarten. One priority was to make the standards useful to teachers, while another was to help ...

The Common Core State Standards call for kindergartners to learn how to read, but a new report by early childhood experts says that forcing some kids to read before they are ready could be harmful ...

We waste energy fighting against the Core Curriculum State Standards when we should be fighting FOR information. Underprepared teachers and misinformed administrators and policy makers will continue ...

The standards for preschool would also be changed to align with the Common Core’s language arts and math standards for kindergarten, Ellen Wolock, director of the state Department of Education ...