The questions, taken from a Common Core fourth-grade reading test, came to a Columbia professor in an email from an anonymous teacher, part of a blistering critique of the exam. The professor put the ...
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. MIAMI, FL — When Gov. Rick Scott announced last week he was pulling Florida out of a multi-state consortium ...
Nearly one year after Common Core tests sparked statewide controversy, this year’s version is being rolled out with little fanfare and few arguments. “I think all the hype and stuff like that has kind ...
A grassroots organization pressing for repeal of Common Core in Massachusetts announced it successfully collected enough signatures to have a question regarding the removal of the K–12 educational ...
The legal and political battle over Common Core tests also could sideline key parts of Louisiana’s public school accountability system, state Superintendent of Education John White said. Letter grades ...
Oklahoma students will not participate in national tests corresponding to Common Core K-12 standards. State Superintendent Janet Barresi cited high costs, technological unpreparedness, and parent and ...
Missouri public school children spent untold hours this spring prepping for a new computer-based standardized test. It required written essays, details to back up answers, and raised concerns that ...
This is another story in KPCC's ongoing series, Classroom Core, that takes a close look at how the Common Core teaching standards are playing out in schools in Southern California. Redondo Beach ...
Pierre the Pelican remembered the word "prism" has a special use in mathematics. Did you? (Michael DeMocker, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) Tuesday's Common Core fifth-grade mathematics question ...
At least, that was the rep on new tests aligned to the Common Core State Standards that millions of U.S. kids took last spring. Now you can be the judge. There are now a slew of actual math and ...
I took mock exams of New York's math and English language arts yesterday and all I could think was, 'I'm so glad I'm out of high school.' Later, I realized I was being tested on the fifth grade Common ...
The questions, taken from a Common Core fourth-grade reading test, came to a Columbia professor in an email from an anonymous teacher, part of a blistering critique of the exam. The professor put the ...