There are few better ways to end the week than with a good laugh. This week, a short story on McSweeney’s poked some gentle fun at what the common-core debate sounds like for people outside the ...

Washington, D.C. — The Center for American Progress and comedy website Funny or Die have teamed up to bring humor and levity to the debate over the Common Core State Standards with a new video ...

A correction to an earlier version of this article has been appended to the end of the article. When Veera Sinha was a little girl in India, her father asked his kids to solve math puzzles in their ...

For a while, the Common Core State Standards seemed to teeter on the brink of the abyss. State lawmakers were defecting left and right, convening committees to rewrite the standards. But a review ...

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.

Common Core has become a litmus test for Republicans in the presidential race. Republican presidential candidates have disavowed it, promised to repeal “every word” of it, and elevated it to the likes ...

This article first appeared on the Brookings site. When Jeb Bush announced he was exploring a run for president, Time warned that Bush was "going to have to win over the Republican conservative base, ...

It was one of the most ambitious education efforts in United States history. Did it fail? Or does it just need more time to succeed? By Dana Goldstein The plan was hatched with high hopes and ...

"Common Core is a total disaster. We can't let it continue." So said presidential candidate Donald Trump in a campaign ad on his website. To make sure there's no confusion about where he stands on the ...