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 ...

Editor’s note: Proponents of the Common Core State Standards – the most ambitious education reform in decades – say the standards will help close the nation’s achievement gap. Just how is that ...

For nearly an hour, Dowan McNair-Lee has been walking her 8th grade English/language arts students through ways to identify the central idea of a text. She’s come at it from several angles, and no ...

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 ...

Part 1 in a four-part series on reading in the Common Core era. The Common Core State Standards are changing what many kids read in school. They're standards, sure — not curriculum. Teachers and ...

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 ...

Every Saturday morning at 10 a.m., Jason Zimba begins a math tutoring session for his two young daughters with the same ritual. Claire, 4, draws on a worksheet while Abigail, 7, pulls addition ...

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The Common Core State Standards have led to big changes in the way many teachers approach reading instruction. Part 1 in a four-part series on reading in the Common Core era. The Common Core State ...