This article is the second of three in a series on Common Core public outreach. A coalition of private foundations has spent approximately $2.5 million to promote Common Core, primarily by teaching ...

With the widespread adoption of the Common Core State Standards, public education in the United States is poised to take a major step forward in readying the next generation of Americans for success ...

Washington, DC – On Friday, January 31, the Center for American Progress and the National Center on Time & Learning will host an event to discuss how high-performing expanded-time schools provide ...

The Common Core State Standards may be implemented nationwide, but support for the standards has dropped to an all-time low. A new report conducted by Education Next (EdNext), a journal from the ...

E.D. Hirsch was an educational conservative before educational conservatives were cool. Now a retired professor of education and humanities at the University of Virginia, Hirsch has been arguing for a ...

Common Core supporters said Wednesday they submitted 6,000 signatures to Gov. Bobby Jindal’s office that show support for the new academic standards. “We have continued to hear the governor suggest ...

Common Core seems like a good idea. In a society as mobile as ours, kids moving from one state to another should not be so far behind or ahead students in their new state. A common set of skills at ...

For some time now, outside groups have been vigorously spreading misinformation about the Common Core state standards, which offer a clear and consistent description of what students should know and ...

Supporters of the new Common Core education standards adopted by 45 states say the standards hold American students to much higher expectations, and move curriculum away from a bubble-test culture ...

UC President Janet Napolitano and three other leaders in California public and private higher education signed a letter Aug. 29 expressing support for the Common Core State Standards. After state ...

Since supporting Common Core’s adoption in the state, Jindal has been involved in three court cases to block aspects of the standards and challenge their legality. Following Jindal’s example, ...

Poor John Huppenthal. OK, I didn’t mean that, he deserves everything he’s been getting lately. But the poor guy (didn’t mean it that time either) can’t catch a break. First, there are all those vile ...