Heather Clydesdale on how world language teachers can align their curriculum with the Common Core State Standards. This article covers a breakout session on that very topic from the 2015 National ...

As most educators know, the Common Core State Standards provide little guidance for how teachers can assist their English-language learner students to meet them. To fill the gap, here’s a short ...

If the old adage is true—that a society can be judged by how it treats its most vulnerable citizens—then putting the common standards into practice carries the specter of a judgment about educational ...

To briefly summarize Common Core, the decision to adopt the Common Core standards was left almost exclusively in the hands of the governors and the state boards of education. The public was not made ...

ATLANTA — Georgia's current education standards are coming to an end, as a new direction of learning is coming for grades K through 12. On Thursday, the state's board of education approved State ...

The Common Core State Standards, developed by state education bosses and the National Governors Association, define in great specificity at every grade level what every student must know in language ...

Forty-two states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core language and mathematics frameworks, which were released last year. Several legislators and school board trustees from states ...

Some say the Common Core has sparked a new focus on content in the classroom. Others say it's intensified the focus on comprehension "skills." The answer depends on where you look. The Common Core ...

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 ...

My TV producers asked our Facebook audience to vote for a topic they'd most like to hear discussed on my year-end show. The overwhelming winner, for some reason: the education standards program Common ...