Even when students earned A’s and B’s, most were not demonstrating grade-level work on their assignments. Teachers are not assigning grade-level tasks and texts. The Common Core State Standards were ...

Georgia’s new English language arts standards are meant to align with new state laws that require public schools to teach reading and writing based on a vast body of ... By first grade, ...

Apr. 3—Based on the recommendation of State School Superintendent Richard Woods, the Georgia Department of Education has posted new K-12 English Language Arts standards for a 30-day public ...

Mark Bauerlein is a professor emeritus of English at Emory University and an editor at First Things magazine. In this guest column, Bauerlein critiques the state’s proposed new standards to ...

For instance, kindergarten and first grade currently have a combined 139 standards students are expected to learn. It would drop to 79 in the new draft.

Georgia's English Language Arts standards have been changed, adding a classic yet controversial subject: Cursive writing. Who will learn it? When? Why?

Instead, standards are proposed to be grouped by “grade bands” with multiple grades: K-1, 2-3, 4-5, 6-8, 9-12. The number of standards for each grade band is less than what’s now required.