This article is the second of three in a series on Common Core public outreach. A coalition of private foundations has spent approximately $2.5 million to promote Common Core, primarily by teaching ...
Republican voters generally support the Common Core State Standards, something that might surprise GOP candidates, a Republican pollster reported on Monday. “Based on the relentless drumbeat of ...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – An LSU poll says Louisiana residents like the idea of multistate education standards, but have a negative view when they’re called Common Core. The survey released Tuesday from ...
This article is the third in a three-part series on Common Core public outreach. It’s not just the federal government and private foundations spending millions to promote Common Core as state and ...
If we redesign schools so that they have significantly more time for student learning and teacher development and collaboration, they will be better able to meet the challenges of Common Core ...
Washington, DC – On Friday, January 31, the Center for American Progress and the National Center on Time & Learning will host an event to discuss how high-performing expanded-time schools provide ...
The Common Core State Standards are dead. Done. Finished. Authorities have told us so. Betsy DeVos delivered a brief eulogy at the American Enterprise Institute earlier this month. “And at the U.S.
This summer, Republican presidential aspirants have roundly criticized the Common Core reading and math standards as federally supported and educationally unsound — and been lambasted by Beltway ...
E.D. Hirsch was an educational conservative before educational conservatives were cool. Now a retired professor of education and humanities at the University of Virginia, Hirsch has been arguing for a ...
For nearly an hour, Dowan McNair-Lee has been walking her 8th grade English/language arts students through ways to identify the central idea of a text. She’s come at it from several angles, and no ...
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - Parent groups seeking to get Common Core repealed are having an impact, but proponents of the Alabama College and Career Readiness standards say that impact is just hurting ...