The success of the Common Core standards depends on how effectively they engage students. Yet the issue of how students are responding to the standards has generally received far less attention – from ...

You can say this about Bill Gates: When he likes something, he sticks to it (at least for a while, until he decides he doesn’t like it anymore). Through his exceedingly wealthy foundation, Gates has ...

President Barack Obama signed sweeping education reform into law in December that gives states more freedom to develop their own K-12 education standards. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, highlighted this ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. For many foes of the Common Core State Standards, this was supposed to be the year their advocacy and passion would translate into victories. Emboldened by last year ...

The Common Core State Standards have been around for just over five years. But many of you might still be stumped by this question: Just how many states have adopted the common core? My colleague ...

During the five years since California adopted the Common Core State Standards for mathematics and English language arts, the search for high-quality textbooks and curriculum materials has been a ...

Most of the states that first endorsed the Common Core academic standards are still using them in some form, despite continued debate over whether they are improving student performance in reading and ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP)-- New York state education officials on Wednesday said the state's third- through eighth-graders – as well as those specifically of New York City – did slightly better on ...

The College Board, the company that owns and publishes the SAT, is changing the exam next year. Test-takers may be surprised to learn the new test will line up more closely with the Common Core, ...

Students at the Mason Classical Academy in Naples, Florida, did rank highly among schools in the local district for English Language Arts and Mathematics in 2017, and their scores improved from the ...

A correction to an earlier version of this article has been appended to the end of the article. When Veera Sinha was a little girl in India, her father asked his kids to solve math puzzles in their ...