A year after Rhode Island implemented Common Core across its public school systems, some parents and stakeholders in the debate have raised concerns about the initiative’s efficacy and interference ...

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Lair, chairman of Missouri’s House Appropriations Committee on Education, inserted an $8 budget line item to mock Common Core critics as tinfoil hat-wearing conspiracy theorists. Lair’s item reads: ...

Regarding "Common Core stirs fear and distrust" (May 12): Regarding the letter "Parents have reason to fear Common Core" (May 19) written by Robert Holland of The Heartland institute: Advocates of the ...

Parents in the Madison school district got their first look Thursday at how their children will be taught when the new Common Core Curriculum goes into effect. Through two one-hour information ...

With all that is happening currently in Washington, D.C. with the blame game still being very much in the news as to those responsible for the partial sixteen-day shutdown of our federal government, ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Millions of students will sit down at computers this year to take new tests rooted in the Common Core standards for math and reading, but policymakers in many states are having ...

Despite fake viral test questions and fear of a government take over of education, a slight majority of parents have a positive opinion of Common Core, according to a new Gallup survey. The set of ...

An Iowa woman jokingly calls it “Satan’s handiwork.” A California mom says she’s broken down in tears. A Pennsylvania parent says it “makes my blood boil.” What could be so horrible? Grade-school math ...