PHOENIX — Gov. Jan Brewer ordered her agencies to stop using the term “Common Core’’ when referring to new education standards, in response to hostility from critics over what they ...

Common Core standards were implemented pretty quickly across the country because those two organizations represent all 50 states, explained Carrie Heath Phillips, program director for Common Core ...

Common Core standards in English language arts, mathematics eliminated in Georgia The new standards were revised as part of a collaborative effort that was a community-led, student-focused effort ...

Opponents contend Common Core includes inappropriate curriculum that is being forced on states. Florida adopted Common Core in the 2000s under Republican Gov. Jeb Bush, who was a strong proponent.

Forum: A Decade On, Has Common Core Failed?Education standards do not flop spectacularly. Their failure gives rise to nothing like the black-and-white films of early aeronautical experiments: no ...

Specifically, our analysis suggests that had the “treatment” states stuck with their prior standards, their grade 4 NAEP reading scores would have been 2.3 to 3.8 points higher on the 0-500 NAEP scale ...

DeSantis’ announcement came five years after then-Gov. Rick Scott took aim at the Common Core standards, which were developed by officials in 48 states and have particularly drawn criticism from ...

It’ll be revived when the Legislature goes back into session.” Jim McNiece, a Wichita Republican who has been on the board since 2013, said he thought the criticism of Common Core was overblown.

Good morning Austin: On Sunday, Gov. Abbott debated former Education Secretary William Bennett on the Common Core standards on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace. Trey Craft, 11, a sixth grade M… ...

The Texas standards reference “Adding It Up,” a major 2001 study by the National Research Council about how children learn math, a study also explicitly cited by the Common Core standards writers.

The Texas standards aren’t the same as the Common Core State Standards, adopted by more than 40 states. It’s actually illegal to teach Common Core in Texas. But even in a state that said an emphatic ...

Common Core marked the first effort to use the same education standards for grades K-12 in all states, a move which came under fire across the nation for exemplifying an overreach of the federal ...