Arkansas is one of 43 states that have adopted Common Core standards for schools.Common Core is a set of standards for math and English language arts that, according to the state, is the best for ...

Editorials and other Opinion content offer perspectives on issues important to our community and are independent from the work of our newsroom reporters. By Michael J. Petrilli and Michael Brickman - ...

As educators across the country implement the Common Core State Standards, we see two paths emerging ... and diverging. The first path treats the common core as just another set of standards to ...

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 ...