Even though students in Connecticut, Wisconsin and Arizona are all learning the same thing, they’ll be measured differently. From Other Nonprofit Media showcases select work from other nonprofit news ...

Forty-two states and the District of Columbia are now using the same math and English standards, but the tests they use to determine how well students have mastered them still vary significantly. One ...

ALBANY -- The state Education Department on Wednesday released 75 percent of questions from last April's Common Core-based tests for students in third through eighth grades. The release of the tests ...

Yesterday, the New York state education department announced it was releasing 75 percent of the multiple-choice items from its 2016 common-core-aligned math and English/language arts tests, and that ...

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The Common Core state tests are over but the results are far from clear for the state Education Department and the thousands of students who opted out of the standardized assessments. New York State ...