Florida may still use national Common Core tests even though Gov. Rick Scott signed an executive order on Sept. 23 limiting the state’s involvement with them. Scott raised concerns about Florida’s use ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. MIAMI, FL — When Gov. Rick Scott announced last week he was pulling Florida out of a multi-state consortium working to create ...

Dropping plans for Common Core tests would spark huge disruptions in Louisiana public schools, state Superintendent of Education John White said Monday. White told the Senate Finance Committee that he ...

Missouri public school children spent untold hours this spring prepping for a new computer-based standardized test. It required written essays, details to back up answers, and raised concerns that ...

As Alabama legislators tabled a bill to withdraw from Common Core national standards, its department of education is adopting related tests and attempting to convince legislators and voters to keep ...

Common Core began as an effort to raise education standards but, Gov. Bobby Jindal contends, has “morphed into a scheme to drive education curriculum from Washington, D.C.” largely through the tests ...

One in six New York students opted out of federally-mandated math or English Language Arts tests this spring. New data sheds light on which types of students opted out of those tests aligned with the ...

The vast majority of states have adopted Common Core academic standards, but individual states are still setting different definitions of "proficient" on annual math and reading tests, according to a ...

The pyrotechnics around the Common Core has obscured some of the more prosaic, but critical, questions it poses for K-12 reform. Field testing for the Common Core-aligned PARCC and Smarter Balanced ...

Here’s a fun mental exercise: The LSATs, the notoriously grueling law school entrance exams, take only about four hours to complete. Now imagine sitting down for an exam twice as long at half the age.

GLEN RIDGE (WABC) -- Another school in New Jersey has canceled midterms and final exams for students in favor of focusing on in-class education days. On Monday, parents of students at Glen Ridge High ...

Wednesday was day two of the controversial Common Core testing in schools and thousands of Long Island students are opting out. According to Long Island Opt-Out Facebook page, more than 17,000 ...