The Asia Society Partnership for Global Learning and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) partnered together to define global competence and the skills and abilities that students need ...

Their report, Benchmarking for Success: Ensuring U.S. Students Receive a World-Class Education, called on states to upgrade their standards by “adopting a common core of internationally benchmarked ...

Produced by Alex Kuzoian and Sara Silverstein Follow BI Video: On Facebook More from Education The Common Core method has many parents concerned. Complaints range from "it's too focused on ...

Nevertheless, the Common Core discussion not only helped me empathize with the concerns of teachers tasked with its implementation, it also uncovered a theme that has lurked in my education ...

The Department of Education implies that federal funds could ... t conform to the preferred federal standards — namely, Common Core. Alexander noted that ESSA explicitly and repeatedly prohibits ...

California education leaders have a tough job of implementing Common Core ahead of them, but ensuring the state’s financial stability and focusing on student learning and growth (as opposed to ...

Or Common Core is an insidious federal government takeover of local education. At a July meeting in Quakertown, one objector called common core "socialism." Another declared: "They're turning us ...