Kevin Hanlon doesn’t have much time to worry about all the sore feelings surrounding the Common Core learning standards or the poor results many students got on the new state tests. He’s the math ...

Love them or hate them, the Common Core State Standards in math and English/Language Arts are being implemented in classrooms in most of the country — in some places better than others. A nonpartisan ...

What is the Common Core? It is a series of grade-by-grade standards for English/language arts and math — what students should know at high school graduation, at the end of 11th grade, at the end of ...

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 ...

A half-million Oregon students head back to school this week, and the vast majority will be held to a higher level of writing, math and reasoning for their grade level than was true last year. The ...