One not-so-obvious change is that Common Core standards can influence how teachers grade student work. Teachers have used standards-based grading almost as long as U.S. schools have been required to ...

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.

Released in 2010 and implemented between 2013 and 2015, Common Core Standards are a collection of curriculum and teacher standards, including a national list of topics students should learn in ...

Those who are pushing for the Common Core Standards initiative are telling schools in each state which concepts should be taught to our children, grade by grade. They tell us these standards are ...

Third-graders at St. John Berchmans School in Chicago walk outside the school Sept. 6. Catholic schools in the archdiocese of Chicago are preparing to implement the Common Core State Standards.

Common Core doesn’t make the grade. Dec 17, 2014 2 min read ... “Adopting Common Core national standards and tests surrenders control of the content taught in local schools to distant national ...

To the editor: You will find lots of nice sounding words promoting the Common Core reading standards: complexity, quality, range, develop critical thinking, rigor. This untested social experiment ...

View full sizeThe Common Core standards lay out what students are expected to know and be able to do at each grade level.AP File Photo There are few issues that generate more conspiratorial ...

The one thing they are all doing is working toward meeting the 1st grade Common Core standards. Students actively develop a sense of inquiry as they use language to learn about their world.

I read the article “Black River Falls names new superintendent” in last week’s edition of the Jackson County Chronicle. The article quoted our future superintendent as saying “the district ...