Washington, D.C. – The transition to the Common Core State Standards offers an important opportunity to replace America’s flawed and misaligned assessment system with better and fairer tests, ...

The debate over the Common Core State Standards Initiative has rocketed to the forefront of education policy discussions around the country. More than 3,000 stories were written about the common core ...

California has joined a growing number of states now facing mounting outcry against Common Core State Standards. The California Alliance of Researchers for Equity in Education (CAREE), which brings ...

OpenEd's assessment creation tool also allows teachers to associate resources to individual questions. Should a student miss a question on an assessment, OpenEd automatically recommends resources such ...

“If teachers are the elevators and the curriculum is the floor plan, where do assessments fit in?” asked Mains. “In my construction analogy, the assessments are the HVAC system, which allows you to ...

BISMARCK – After lengthy and passionate debate, House lawmakers Wednesday narrowly defeated a bill that would have forced North Dakota to withdraw from the consortium that develops assessments for the ...

Most analysts agree that the success or failure of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) hinges on implementation. But the term has been ambiguous. Advocates of CCSS talk about aligned curriculum, ...

Forty-five states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core State Standards, promising full implementation by the 2014-15 school year. While most of the discussion about the Common ...

The 22-state consortium that is developing Common Core math and English tests for K-12 students will soon no longer be a cheap date for South Carolina taxpayers. After a four-year, $175 million ...