In Utah, the state department of education is pulling together textbooks aligned to Common Core State Standards made up entirely of open educational resources, or OERs. South Dakota officials have ...

As states and districts begin the work of turning common academic standards into curriculum and instruction, educators searching for teaching resources are often finding that process frustrating and ...

One of the three lead writers of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), a national initiative with roots in No Child Left Behind and other federal government education programs, recently told a ...

CONCORD — The battle lines are being drawn over the state Board of Education decision to implement the controversial Common Core standards statewide. Conservative groups opposing the standards and the ...

"Why aren't you using all the resources?" That was the first question a district coach asked me in my rookie teaching year. She wanted me to use the nearly 60 teacher books that went along with our ...

My daughter brought home some crazy math homework this year. I thought South Carolina wasn’t using Common Core Math, but when I looked in her book, it had Common Core all over it. Will this way of ...

Common Core math is all the rage these days, sometimes quite literally. Some parents, some school boards and even U.S. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., have lambasted, or at least questioned, the ...

At a Chicago fundraiser May 29, 2013, President Obama said “I don’t have much patience for people who deny climate change.” At his swearing in ceremony May 21, 2013, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz ...

The leader of a pro-Common Core group Wednesday disputed what he labeled as outlandish claims used by opponents of the new academic standards. Barry Erwin, president of the Council for a Better ...