Evan, an Alberta Rider second grader, reads from a new Common Core aligned reading book that contains more instructional texts than he would have read in first grade. ((Doug Beghtel/The Oregonian)) ...
Common Core (CC) K–12 math and English standards are lingering, despite concerted efforts by concerned parents and taxpayers to remove them. It is like a house with an underwater mortgage: The United ...
NEW YORK – Every Saturday morning at 10 a.m., Jason Zimba begins a math tutoring session for his two young daughters with the same ritual. His youngest, Claire, 4, draws on a worksheet while his ...
Common-core math aims to have students do less memorizing—but it’s being misinterpreted to have students do more, argues Kathy Liu Sun, an assistant professor of math education at Santa Clara ...
Louisiana educators will teach under new standards next year, after an eight-month review process and years of public disagreement about Common Core State Standards. Both proponents and opponents of ...
The Common Core State Standards have vaulted into the national consciousness lately thanks to some high-profile dissenters, like Louis C.K. ("Kids teachers parents are vocally suffering.") and Stephen ...
After analyzing dozens of K-12 math textbooks —and determining that most of the major publishers were selling subpar common-core products—the curriculum review group EdReports.org has now moved on to ...