Common Core, a national set of educational standards adopted in 2010, established reading and math benchmarks that children must reach from kindergarten through 12th grade.

Concerned parents and teachers had several questions about Common Core test grading, including qualifications of graders, accuracy of scoring and how fast graders had to work.

The Basics: In math, students advance to work with decimals up to the hundreds place. Students add, subtract, and multiply fractions, including fractions with different denominators. They expand th… ...

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.

Ohio recently rejected PARCC's recommended cut scores to designate proficiency and adopted more generous ones. One of the goals of the Common Core was to make it easier to compare student ...

Is Common Core tougher on special education students? 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 loves ...

The Common Core standards are finely detailed, grade-by-grade specifications for what should be taught, how it should be taught and when it should be taught.

If the first things you think of when you think of scoring the tests associated with Common Core are cheeseburgers and Craigslist, then two things may be true about you: you have probably never ...

Under Common Core, first-grade teacher Amancia Hanna reads her students more non-fiction books than fairy tales and says they find it easier to relate to real-life characters and enjoy reading more.

The Common Core lists skills students need to master at each grade level without specifying any particular knowledge they need to acquire. That may not be a problem in math, but it could be a ...

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 ...

The Common Core State Standards were envisioned as a way to measure most of the nation's students against a shared benchmark, but education experts say political upheaval and the messy reality of ...