Wyoming’s decision to adopt a set of national education standards in math and language arts may be a year old, but discourse on the learning goals was fresh among a crowd of parents, teachers and ...

New national standards for math and English education offer the promise of more relevance to the real world and the ability to compare students' performance across state lines. But skeptics worry ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — While the Common Core education standards provoked political backlash and testing boycotts around the country this year, the state that educates more public school children than ...

A bill to end the use of Common Core education standards in Kansas was defeated during a House floor vote after passing the state’s House Education Committee. House Bill 2292 would have replaced ...

Critics of Common Core education standards told Missouri House Interim Education Committee members Tuesday the guidelines lack rigor, are one-size-fits-all and allow the government to collect too much ...

North Carolina legislators have introduced a proposal that would require their state to examine national Common Core education standards. Over the last few years, North Carolina and 44 other states ...

KANSAS CITY — Education officials in most of the states that have adopted Common Core standards say they will go forward with the benchmarks for reading, writing and math despite objections, according ...

The state Board of Education adopted the Common Core reading and math standards in 2010, but in recent years they have been attacked by conservative Republicans, who say they're too expensive.

With Louisiana one of the states embroiled in a debate over the "Common Core" education standards, and with Gov. Bobby Jindal (nominally opposed) and state superintendent of education John White ...

There are several misleading statements in state Rep. Jerry Stern’s recent op-ed on this page regarding the Common Core education standards which I feel compelled to address, as I have been studying ...