Arkansas is one of 43 states that have adopted Common Core standards for schools.Common Core is a set of standards for math and English language arts that, according to the state, is the best for ...

It’s vacation time for the nation’s school kids and, while they play, states are beginning to push back against the latest effort of the federal government to exert total control over the nation’s ...

(WZZM) - It's an issue that could affect your child's future and no one can seem to agree on it. The Common Core is a set of English and math standards that say what students should know and when.

Think about the major policy undertakings of the Obama administration over the past six and a half years. It began with a “stimulus” that wasted trillions in the quest of generating jobs, but did ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — New teachers, new schedules, new curriculum. As students get back in the classroom, they may find some of the learning materials have changed. After more than a decade, Common ...

Supporters of Common Core say the new benchmarks will inject more rigor into K-12 education, push students to compete better with those in other top-performing countries and allow for more accurate ...

Common Core is a set of standards for English and math unveiled in 2010 that came out of years of discussion between private nonprofit groups and state education departments. They were put in place in ...

Mississippi’s move into implementation of the public schools’ Common Core State Standards requires a full refocusing of accountability methods and testing, a time-consuming, complex task necessitating ...

In the past 15 years or so, Washington state's schools have gone through the WASL (Washington Assessment of Student Learning), the HSPE (High School Proficiency Exams) and the MSP (Measurements of ...

On Thursday night, the Coffee County School Board fielded several complaints from the community concerning Federal Common Core Curriculum. If you purchase a product or register for an account through ...