Education standards make a difference when districts use them to raise expectations and create more rigorous and coherent ...

School is in session at Elite Scholars Academy and there's something new this year other than notebooks, pencils and clothes -- the academic standards. The year-round Clayton County charter school is ...

The Common Core State Standards mean big changes in classrooms across the country. This... is the sound of that change. Postcards From The Common Core Classroom Postcards From The Common Core ...

State Education Betty Rosa writes that improving student achievement requires a clear understanding of the challenges and a ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Lindsey Yundt’s algebra 1 class at Boise’s South Junior High doesn’t bear much resemblance to what it might have looked like a few years ago. The days when students copied a couple ...

MANCHESTER — The Common Core State Standards will start being implemented in city classrooms this semester, despite the concerns expressed by its critics and some school board members. Superintendent ...

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 testing, it did ...

"Without the Gates money," Holliday added, "we wouldn't have been able to do this." Over time, at least $15 million in Gates money was directed both to the state - to train teachers in Common Core ...

All Jamestown eighth- or ninth-grade students, who are beginning their algebra instruction this school year, must take the new Common Core Algebra 1 Regents that will be given for the first time on ...