Stephanie Furlong's oldest son, a 10th-grader at Santa Monica High School, took an accelerated math track in middle school. Her next child, an eighth-grader at John Adams Middle School, has taken the ...

A controversial bill to repeal Ohio’s Common Core school standards died quietly this week without a vote, but educators and state legislators expect the issue to be revived next year in some form.

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Regarding "Missouri considers dropping Common Core school standards" (April 27): This is terrifying. For the first time in memory ...

What the public has heard about the controversy over national Common Core school standards largely fails to include the substance of that debate: whether the national curriculum and testing mandates ...

LAFAYETTE — Common Core education standards, proposals to change local School Board governance and funding for roads and bridges are among the issues Lafayette-area legislators said they will continue ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. MIAMI, FL — When Gov. Rick Scott announced last week he was pulling Florida out of a multi-state consortium working to create ...

Common Core (CC) K–12 math and English standards are lingering, despite concerted efforts by concerned parents and taxpayers to remove them. It is like a house with an underwater mortgage: The United ...

In 2010, a who’s who of American educators and politicians joined forces to spearhead a national initiative with wide appeal and few, if any, critics. It was called the Common Core. The pols and ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. If it is true that the Common Core state standards are a federal takeover, then how is it Missouri can simply vote them out? The ...

It is a frightening measure of courage, or rather lack of it, in Louisiana politics: Three of four leading candidates for governor quail before political pressure over Common Core school standards.

Standards for Wisconsin’s classrooms might see drastic changes in the coming years. Wisconsin lawmakers are looking at a bill that would essentially replace the set of classroom standards that schools ...