For nearly an hour, Dowan McNair-Lee has been walking her 8th grade English/language arts students through ways to identify the central idea of a text. She’s come at it from several angles, and no ...

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 ...

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 standards expect students to become adept at reading informational text, a shift in focus that many English/language arts teachers fear might diminish the time-honored place of literature ...

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 ...

Bills mandating the “Science of Reading” have been passing left and right across the nation. While some, like the Pennsylvania bill that passed 201-0, provide gentle nudging and support, others, like ...

"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 ...

Although the school year has yet to end, classroom teachers are already thinking of how their classrooms will look and function best in the next school year. They are smart to give the matter their ...

The people who came up with the idea of the Common Core saw reading comprehension as a content-neutral set of skills, leading to massive confusion. The Common Core may be the most misunderstood ...

The Common Core State Standards have become a political hot potato. In some cases, a punching bag. (Pick your cliche.) But the fact remains that, in 43 states and the District of Columbia, the ...