President Barack Obama signed sweeping education reform into law in December that gives states more freedom to develop their own K-12 education standards. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, highlighted this ...

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.

New York leaders have approved a new set of reading and math expectations for students, moving the state a step away from the Common Core State Standards, which are still in use in some 36 states. The ...

Bill and Melinda Gates, two of the world’s leading philanthropists, sit down with Gwen Ifill in Seattle to discuss their efforts to support education reform and the political battles over the Common ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Long a staple of the high school curriculum, the mathematics-course sequence of Algebra 1, geometry, and Algebra 2 is facing a budding challenge as schools transition to the Common Core State ...

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, ...

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