Under the common core, teachers are building students' vocabulary skills by teaching words in context, rather than through word lists.

Parents in Farmville, North Carolina want to know why their children were given a Common Core vocabulary assignment in an English class that promoted Muhammad and the Islamic faith.

"The questions were confusing. They were so sophisticated that it appeared incongruous to me to watch a third-grader wiggle her tooth while simultaneously struggle to answer high school-level ...

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Without better instruction, children starting school with small vocabularies will struggle with common standards, scholars say.