Washington, D.C. – The transition to the Common Core State Standards offers an important opportunity to replace America’s flawed and misaligned assessment system with better and fairer tests, ...

In less than three years, the Common Core State Standards have vaulted over three key hurdles, surprising more than a few naysayers. In June 2009, governors and education chiefs in 46 states pledged ...

Washington, D.C. — Public schools that significantly expand their schedules will be in a much stronger position to successfully implement the Common Core State Standards, the most rigorous English and ...

The Common Core State Standards are designed to have a transformative effect on teaching and learning in the United States. But, as we all know, the 46 states and the District of Columbia that have ...

A series of fires at Hamilton Homes in Oswego late March 27 and early March 28 led to the arrest of a Sandy Creek man on multiple felony charges. Gardening Update: Weather permits taking plants ...

I have an article out today over at Education Next looking through the Common Core implementation glass darkly. As I say in the piece, for a variety of reasons (some of which were enumerated by Bill ...

Critics of the Common Core reading and math standards adopted by forty-odd states since 2010 have taken to calling them “Obamacore,” in a play on health care reform. The “Obamacore” moniker reflects ...

Opposition to the Common Core academic standards and assessments associated with them have strengthened on Long Island and nationwide, with officials in states such as Indiana proposing to slow ...

The Michigan House passed a budget bill prohibiting the state department of education from using state money to implement the Common Core national education standards and associated tests. The Senate ...

Supporters of the Common Core repeal moving through the Alabama Legislature cite the state's poor performance on the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) as a reason for doing away with ...