Education Week

Common Core Found to Rank With Respected Standards

The common-core standards in English/language arts and mathematics are generally aligned to the leading state standards, international standards, and university standards at the high-school-exit level ...
cnycentral

What are the Common Core State Standards?

Mon, 26 Aug 2013 19:14:51 GMT — The Common Core State Standards have been adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia with the goal of better preparing the nation's students for college or a job ...
Grand Forks Herald

Kirsten Baesler: Common Core standards 'offer floor, not ceiling'

BISMARCK -- Common Core math and English language-arts state standards have been drawing some questions, concerns and criticism. I appreciate the chance to clear up some confusion. North Dakota always ...
Education Week

Commentary Missed Five Flaws in the Common-Core Standards

Joanne Yatvin (“How to Improve the Common Core,” Sept. 25, 2013) identifies three important problems with the Common Core State Standards and offers thoughtful solutions. But she does not address five ...
The Daily Signal

Did Common Core Standards Contribute to Slide in Eighth-Grade Math Scores?

Nick Storz is a government student at Patrick Henry College and an intern with the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation. John Schoof is a research associate at the Center for ...
WTVD

Common Core revamp doesn't amount to much, critics say

RALEIGH (WTVD) -- It wasn't the end result critics of the Common Core educational standards thought they'd get. In fact, it was a far cry from it. "What we saw was that a back-door decision had ...
Heartland

A Common-Sense Approach to the Common Core Math Standards

An article by Elizabeth Green (CEO of a nonprofit education news organization called Chalkbeat) that recently appeared in the New York Times magazine, attempts to explain why most Americans are bad at ...
WRAL

Flexibility, clarity key to replacing Common Core standards

Members of a state commission have identified their top priorities for revising the Common Core academic standards used for North Carolina's public school students. At a meeting Monday, they said they ...
Heartland

Kansas Puts Hope in Common Core Standards

The Kansas State Board of Education (KSBE) voted to make the Sunflower State one of the last states to adopt the national Common Core State Standards Initiative. These standards were designed by a ...
Sacramento Bee

Jeb Bush wrestles with Common Core: Yes to standards, no to feds

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush lays out his educational platform during an education summit on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015, in Londonderry, N.H. Jim Cole AP Jeb Bush sought to put space between himself and ...

NC has approved new reading standards. See what students are expected to learn.

Teachers will be trained on how to teach the new language arts standards before they go into effect in the 2027-28 school year.