The questions, taken from a Common Core fourth-grade reading test, came to a Columbia professor in an email from an anonymous teacher, part of a blistering critique of the exam. The professor put the ...

The questions, taken from a Common Core fourth-grade reading test, came to a Columbia professor in an email from an anonymous teacher, part of a blistering critique of the exam. The professor put the ...

Missouri public school children spent untold hours this spring prepping for a new computer-based standardized test. It required written essays, details to back up answers, and raised concerns that ...

As Alabama legislators tabled a bill to withdraw from Common Core national standards, its department of education is adopting related tests and attempting to convince legislators and voters to keep ...

Check your answers ... like Pierre the Pelican ... and tell us what you think of the Common Core now. (Michael DeMocker, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) Two weeks, 10 questions and two failed Louisiana ...

At least, that was the rep on new tests aligned to the Common Core State Standards that millions of U.S. kids took last spring. Now you can be the judge. There are now a slew of actual math and ...

This is another story in KPCC's ongoing series, Classroom Core, that takes a close look at how the Common Core teaching standards are playing out in schools in Southern California. Redondo Beach ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. MIAMI, FL — When Gov. Rick Scott announced last week he was pulling Florida out of a multi-state consortium ...

Nearly one year after Common Core tests sparked statewide controversy, this year’s version is being rolled out with little fanfare and few arguments. “I think all the hype and stuff like that has kind ...

I took mock exams of New York's math and English language arts yesterday and all I could think was, 'I'm so glad I'm out of high school.' Later, I realized I was being tested on the fifth grade Common ...

Standardized tests for students in grades three through eight begin Tuesday. Last year a few parents kept their children from taking the exams. This year the number sitting out could be far higher. It ...