Ah, gym class. For many kids, it injects a 45-minute burst of enjoyable exertion and playful activity into an otherwise dreary school day. But not so fast! All classes must become standardized under ...

Every so often, K-12 schooling witnesses the rise of an intuitive, easy-to-like, bipartisan reform push that’s backed by deep-pocketed funders and a lot of recognizable names. While this alignment of ...

e2020 Launches Library of Common Core Lessons By Dian Schaffhauser 06/29/11 Education2020, a courseware company that provides online instruction for students in grades 6 through 12, has added eLibrary ...

No matter how you feel about them, the Common Core State Standards are here. Teachers in most states are expected to use the standards for planning, instruction, and assessment—with 65 percent of ...

It’s been five years since controversy peaked over the Common Core State Standards and their use in Catholic schools. What have we learned? By 2013 the Common Core was being adopted rapidly by ...

These days, the phrase “Common Core” brings up a whole mess of tightly-coupled issues. There are the written standards. Then there are questions around how those standards are implemented in classroom ...

Common-core anxiety sweeps the land, and professional developers of curriculum and assessment smell dollars. Flashy brochures promise that once that purchase order is signed, every child will pass the ...

Critics of the Common Core reading and math standards adopted by forty-odd states since 2010 have taken to calling them “Obamacore,” in a play on health care reform. The “Obamacore” moniker reflects ...