Common Core requires students to think more critically about concepts rather than just understand how to get a correct answer. Opponents of the program say Common Core is too rigid.

The Common Core standards have teachers and politicians divided. One teacher even quit her job in protest.

Backers of keeping the current Common Core program say the state is making changes to classroom instruction just as teachers and students are adapting to the new approaches.

Astorino has voiced criticism of the Common Core program in the past, and has said his school-aged children would opt out of the exams last spring.Astorino also said he rejects the idea of a national ...

The common core sets goals for what students should learn, not rigid curriculum guidelines, write Richard Laine and Chris Minnich.

The widespread pledge by states to adopt “common core” academic standards could allow online education to truly break down state boundaries for teachers and students for the first time, and ...

That was followed by ObamaCare which most agree has been a disaster for the nation’s healthcare sector and, finally, Common Core, a one-size-fits-all testing program intended, we were told, to improve ...

The current Common Core program does not do that. It must. "The fact is that the current Common Core program in New York is not working, and must be fixed.

The Common Core issue has been dividing lawmakers in Montgomery all year, and now, some prominent leaders in the Tennessee Valley have weighed in.

His "opinion" shows that he is not conversant with the facts concerning the Common Core program and does not want to be.

The Common Core program – both maligned and praised – was repealed by the S.C. Senate by a startling 42-0 vote.

Having previously suggested that critics of the so-called Common Core standards program are crazy, ignorant and lying, Bush piled on at a recent National Press Club appearance.