Indeed, Common Core has spawned a cottage industry of guide books, YouTube tutorials and Facebook memes that feed off parental frustration. From the dad in “Incredibles 2” to the legions of ...

Michelle Kohlhorst, a grader of new Common Core exams for PARCC and Pearson Inc., says the grading of the exams is fair to students because each response is measured against the same standard of ...

Common Core grade inflation Ohio is proving the weakness of the Common Core approach. Education K-12 Schooling. Jenn Hatfield. Max Eden @maxeden99. November 10, 2015.

Common Core standards — which lay out what students should know and be able to do by each grade — have captured widespread public attention only in the last 18 months or so.

Is Common Core tougher on special education students? 03:49 NEW YORK - Nothing lights up 10 year-old Billy Flood's face brighter than when you talk to him about music. The pint-size Beatles fan ...

Motoko Rich, intrepid education reporter at the New York Times, has a piece out called “Grading the Common Core: No Teaching Experience Required,” and it raises an important question: should ...

Common Core restricts choice and simply doesn’t make the grade. - Ed Feulner is founder of The Heritage Foundation. Originally appeared in The Washington Times ...

Those scores will be released this summer, but Tinsley said the superintendent assured parents that all the kids would be promoted to the fourth grade. The tough Common Core exams have raised anxiety.

One of the bipartisan hopes for the Common Core, a set of guidelines for what the nation's kindergarten-through-12th-grade students should learn and when, was that states would leave behind their ...

While the 40-plus states that have adopted the Common Core State Standards agree what skills students should have at certain grade levels, the decision of how to teach the material is not prescribed.

The appendix of the common-core math standards suggests a three-years-in-two option, in which students take the content of 7th grade math, 8th grade math, and Algebra 1 in the last two years of ...