Claim: As part of the Common Core curriculum, fourth-grade students have been assigned a worksheet directing them to describe a woman's reaction when she discovers another woman's hairclip in her ...

The Common Core calls for cross-disciplinary teaching and the reinforcement of foundational English and math skills in not only core academic subjects, but in art, music, and gym as well.

Every Saturday morning at 10 a.m., Jason Zimba begins a math tutoring session for his two young daughters with the same ritual. Claire, 4, draws on a worksheet while Abigail, 7, pulls addition ...

Hadley Danielson, a mother and tutor in Shelton, Wash., said, “My first reaction to a Common Core worksheet was repulsion. It’s ugly math. It doesn’t look pretty or easy.” ...

Yet more and more states are finding that there’s simply no living with Common Core. Parents, teachers, ... Common Core doesn’t make the grade. Dec 17, 2014 2 min read COMMENTARY BY.

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 ...

If there’s one thing that unites American parents, it’s an inability to make heads or tails of their kids’ math homework. If you’ve ever scratched your head over a Common Core worksheet ...

Her daughter’s worksheet, which came from the New York Department of Education’s EngageNY lesson plan website and was emblazoned with “NY’s Common Core Mathematics Curriculum,” asks ...

CCGPS: Mathematics - 6th Grade. Special | 1h 53m 8s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Common Core Georgia Performance Standards - An in-depth discussion. Aired 02/02/2012 | Rating NR ...

And not only that, but I learned through my Finnish mother-in-law—a preschool teacher—that Finland’s kindergartners spend a sizable chunk of each day playing, not filling out worksheets.

What about Texas? Texas was one of five states that declined from the get-go. And last session, the Legislature passed a law prohibiting the state or local districts from using Common Core standards.

Common Core is overwhelming. Then I hear the teacher talking about Geometry. When I inquired about why a 3rd grade class was supposed to learn about Geometry when at that age I was memorizing and ...