A consortium of consultants and science educators has released its final draft of what it plans will become national education standards for K-12 science. They are titled Next Generation Science ...

A consortium of consultants and science educators has released a draft of what they plan will become national education standards for K-12 science. Forty-five states have already adopted math and ...

The Common Core State Standards Initiative is a coordinated effort to prepare every child in the U.S. public school system for college or the workforce by ensuring that they reach certain ...

What does Common Core math look like? Caleb Bonham, Campus Reform’s Editor-in-chief, just released a video that illustrates the dramatic shift in mathematics education students will experience ...

One reason that formal action on the science standards is happening more slowly than with the common core is the lack of federal incentives, said Stephen L. Pruitt, a senior vice president at ...

And the whole concept of common standards has drawn fire from some quarters. Supporters of the common-core standards are defending them against a backlash in several states. (See related story ...

About two-thirds, or 68%, say implementation is "going well" in their schools, up from 62% last year. But 81% of teachers say Common Core is "challenging" to implement, up from 73% last year.

Learning from the pushback created when the government nudged states on Common Core academic standards, supporters of new science guidelines tried a different focus: “For States, By States.” ...

Federal control. Common Core education standards are, indeed, federal control of education that will undermine state, local and parental control of our children’s education.

The Common Core has only been around since 2010, and it could just take more time to see results. While that’s true, there’s plenty of other evidence that high standards alone won’t lead to ...

In 2010, the Oregon State Board of Education adopted new national standards in English and Math called the Common Core. Adopting new standards didn't mean that everything Oregon students would ...

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 ...