Could you pass a Common Core English or Math exam? Students across the state are opting out of taking standardized testing. If you want to give it a shot, you can visit the Common Core website. But ...

Students may have already taken the first round of tests using new Common Core standards here in New York, but the debate over the new standardized tests is far from over. State Sen. Cecilia Tkaczyk, ...

It’s not easy to make sense of the debate over the Common Core State Standards in math and English language arts. Gov. Scott Walker, a potential presidential aspirant, wants to do away with the ...

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The Common Core debate rolls merrily along. It’s made the occasional appearance in the contest for the GOP nomination — popping up occasionally between new Trumpisms and debate postmortems — and as ...

The people who came up with the idea of the Common Core saw reading comprehension as a content-neutral set of skills, leading to massive confusion. The Common Core may be the most misunderstood ...

The state Board of Education adopted the Common Core Standards for New Hampshire two years ago. Last week, Manchester school board members postponed a committee meeting at which Common Core would be ...