This is a cross post from the Politics K-12 blog, which covers federal education policy. As states continue to address the Common Core State Standards in various ways, more and more people have been ...

As states continue to address the Common Core State Standards in various ways, more and more people have been wondering about the status of the common core nationally. It’s a complicated issue, in ...

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Although the State Board of Education adopted new Common Core standards in math and English language arts nearly seven years ago, some school districts are still in the process of implementing them.

The people who came up with the idea of the Common Core saw reading comprehension as a content-neutral set of skills, leading to massive confusion. The Common Core may be the most misunderstood ...

What’s the fuss about? Steve Rhodes, CC BY-NC-ND Beginning in 2010, mathematics and English language arts standards, called the Common Core State Standards, were adopted in 45 of 50 U.S. states. The ...