For a while now, some anti-Big Government privacy activists have argued that the Common Core learning standards are actually just a front for data collection. But when it comes to student data, Big ...

As many educators and researchers will attest, there’s no exact science to choosing vocabulary words—no inherent reason the word “detest” is more important to teach than “despise,” or why “compassion” ...

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 less than three years, the Common Core State Standards have vaulted over three key hurdles, surprising more than a few naysayers. In June 2009, governors and education chiefs in 46 states pledged ...

Conservative critics of New Hampshire’s academic standards have an unlikely source of inspiration: Massachusetts. Specifically, the academic standards used by Massachusetts before 2010, when the ...

Washington, D.C. — Researchers and employers alike acknowledge that science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM, skills are critical for highly educated workers, as well as professions ...

The Louisiana state Department of Education did make the right choice in adopting the Common Core standards. The Common Core places each student in every state on a scheduled path, focuses on ...

Two Frewsburg residents contacted me with questions. Concerned about his grandchildren being taught using Common Core, the grandfather wanted to know Frewsburg’s results on state assessments. Another ...

To briefly summarize Common Core, the decision to adopt the Common Core standards was left almost exclusively in the hands of the governors and the state boards of education. The public was not made ...

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