Gov. Bobby Jindal's long-awaited announcement of his plans to scuttle the Common Core academic standards in Louisiana set off a political scramble and procedural tug-of-war Wednesday. It left the ...

JEFFERSON CITY • Ten minutes before a work group tasked with developing elementary school social studies standards began its Thursday meeting, members ran through the list of absentees. Heavy rain ...

English teachers nationwide are puzzling over a math problem: How to include the right percentages of “informational text” new standards demand in their classes. In 2010, 45 states adopted the same ...

Let’s put aside the fact that Common Core was initiated in large part by our own Gov. Sonny Perdue and voluntarily supported by dozens of other state governors. It’s important to consider the ...

It has come to my attention that many residents of Rochester think Breanna Bly is an advocate and supporter of the much ballyhooed "Common Core" state standards. This information is patently wrong and ...

This is the latest of a long series of occurrences that started at the end of the 2010 session when the Legislature approved the adoption of Common Core curriculum standards for English and math. The ...

Common Core. Smarter Balance. It sends shivers through some. Understanding it is an education by itself. It’s a Tuesday night in late March and I’m chatting with a group of five parents inside a dimly ...

The people who came up with the idea of the Common Core saw reading comprehension as a content-neutral set of skills, leading to massive confusion. The Common Core may be the most misunderstood ...

In your column of April 26, you concluded that the Common Core made “school improvement tougher and more ideological.” Combined with your quotes of Tom Loveless’ book, Between the State and the ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. JEFFERSON CITY • Ten minutes before a work group tasked with developing elementary school social studies standards began its ...

Twice lately I’ve listened to people on each side of the Common Core debate plead their case. I’m sorry to report I’m no more certain of what Georgia should do than I was before. It’s hard to believe ...