New York is about to find out. “You’ll see the total numbers go down, but the overall percentages go up,” Deutermann tells the Press. For example, Comsewogue School District went up to 84 percent ...

ALBANY – A second round of state testing will begin Wednesday in New York public schools as a movement to refuse the exams in protest continues to gain momentum. Students in grades 3-8 will sit ...

Erin Kiley teaches algebra at Syracuse's Grant Middle School last year. She is helping Norge Rodriguez., left, and Rubanel Serrano. New York Education Commissioner John King wrote in a letter to ...

LINDENHURST, N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP) --After seeing thousands of students sit out New York's statewide English assessments last week, school districts are beginning three days of math testing. New York's ...

The Common Core has come under fire by parents who say the new education standards make math needlessly complicated. Schools have adopted new ways of teaching subtraction and multiplication, and ...

It’s a tough test — but not so tough to pass. New York high-schoolers who took the Regents Common Core Algebra I exam this month had to earn just 27 of 86 points, or 31.4 percent, to pass. On the ...

LOS ANGELES - Results for some of the states that participated in Common Core-aligned testing for the first time this spring are out, with overall scores higher than expected though still below what ...

Although calculators have not figured prominently in discussions of the common-core math standards, it’s likely the complementary tests will result in far greater uniformity in their use on state ...

Tens of thousands of eighth-graders still face an uphill battle in high school despite the city’s boast that more students passed the 2017 state Common Core exams. In math, 21,738 city eighth-graders ...

If the new national Common Core educational standards influence curriculum the way some fear they will, students can say goodbye to literary classics and hello to fuzzy math, say critics. The Common ...