The questions, taken from a Common Core fourth-grade reading test, came to a Columbia professor in an email from an anonymous teacher, part of a blistering critique of the exam. The professor put the ...

Nearly one year after Common Core tests sparked statewide controversy, this year’s version is being rolled out with little fanfare and few arguments. “I think all the hype and stuff like that has kind ...

This is another story in KPCC's ongoing series, Classroom Core, that takes a close look at how the Common Core teaching standards are playing out in schools in Southern California. Redondo Beach ...

The California Board of Education (CBOE) has decided not use Common Core test scores in school performance assessments for the first year of testing. CBOE suspended the state’s Academic Performance ...

The Jindal administration has renewed charges that Common Core tests plans pushed by top state education leaders may be illegal. But an attorney for the state’s top school board Friday denounced the ...

Gov. Bobby Jindal on Friday urged Louisiana’s top school board to let students who plan to skip Common Core tests in March take alternate assessments. Jindal, in an unusual executive “order,” said ...

With New York State ready to hand out the Common Core exam this spring, how tough is the test? See how much math you remember from grade school with these sample questions from the Grade 4 Mathematics ...