It's exactly what critics of the Common Core school curriculum warned about: Partisan political statements masquerading as English lessons finding their way into elementary school classrooms. Teaching ...

As states start phasing in Common Core standards in public school classrooms, no Common Core textbooks have been written yet, and new assessments are still being developed. So, teachers are creating ...

Some of the biggest critics of new lesson plans aligned with the national Common Core standards are the people charged with teaching them. A growing number of teachers say the national standards, ...

The goals for Salata’s class were made clear to the students on two printouts he taped to his blackboard. A major part of the Common Core, he said, is stating the goals of a lesson to students at the ...

The 53 teachers gathered around tables here have been called to a new kind of jury duty. But they won’t be deciding whether a fellow citizen is guilty of a crime: Their charge is to pass judgment on ...

One way to go beyond the idea of communism as evidence of paranoia, though, is to recall George Orwell’s Animal Farm. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” will be the ...