WASHINGTON — Many Americans are confused about the Common Core State Standards, according to a new poll that finds widespread misconceptions that the academic standards — which cover only math and ...

Here's an important thing to understand about the Common Core Standards--nobody is in charge of them. Many standards have official gatekeepers. For instance, the National Institute of Standards and ...

Right now, America's schools are in a sprint. Forty-four states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core State Standards. That means new learning benchmarks for the vast majority of ...

EdSource · California teachers on the picket line amid shrinking school budgets The Common Core State Standards state what students should master, but they are not a curriculum. Jumping from the ...

The U.S. Department of Education is legally prohibited from having any control over curriculum or instruction in the nation’s public schools, but nonetheless Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is a ...

This post was originally posted on the Curriculum Matters blog. Earlier this week, Louisiana legislators approved a new set of academic standards to replace the Common Core State Standards, reports my ...