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 ...

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 ...

For years now, the Common Core State Standards have been at the center of a national controversy over public education. Supporters say the standards, being used in most states, will improve public ...