If one were betting on it, the one subject that seemed an almost sure thing to come up in a big way at the Senate confirmation hearing of the next U.S. education secretary, it would have been the ...

Could you pass a Common Core English or Math exam? Students across the state are opting out of taking standardized testing. If you want to give it a shot, you can visit the Common Core website. But ...

The Common Core debate rolls merrily along. It’s made the occasional appearance in the contest for the GOP nomination — popping up occasionally between new Trumpisms and debate postmortems — and as ...

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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 state Board of Education adopted the Common Core Standards for New Hampshire two years ago. Last week, Manchester school board members postponed a committee meeting at which Common Core would be ...

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A correction to an earlier version of this article has been appended to the end of the article. When Veera Sinha was a little girl in India, her father asked his kids to solve math puzzles in their ...

Students may have already taken the first round of tests using new Common Core standards here in New York, but the debate over the new standardized tests is far from over. State Sen. Cecilia Tkaczyk, ...