Washington, D.C., students showed big gains in fourth grade reading and eighth grade math. In fact, D.C. Public Schools was the only large district to show test-score gains in three of the four ...

“In some cases Common Core has taken concepts that would normally be taught in fifth or sixth grade and shoved them down to third grade,” Gerritson wrote. “That is one reason why students ...

The Common Core learning standards were introduced in Chicago starting in 2011, and teachers say implementation was uneven. Recently, fifth-grade students worked on decimals at Belmont-Cragin ...

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is crafting a plan to “dismantle” the Common Core education standards, resurrecting a long-simmering political issue that puts school administrators on the defensive.

Students who score within the lowest "levels" of FSA tests can be held back in third grade, and the 10th-grade language arts test determines if students are eligible to graduate from high school.

It’s 3+3+3+3+3. And it’s 5+5+5. The new methods leave many parents baffled. A common core math problem that went viral on social media.

The Common Core has only been around since 2010, and it could just take more time to see results. While that’s true, there’s plenty of other evidence that high standards alone won’t lead to ...

The California Department of Education released scores for the third year of the Smarter Balanced assessment on Wednesday, about a month behind schedule. The results for all of California’s nearly ...

Although the State Board of Education adopted new Common Core standards in math and English language arts nearly seven years ago, some school districts are still in the process of implementing them.

Sixty-four third-graders — including 12 from Long Island — were erroneously given exams meant for fourth-graders on the first day of computer-based English Language Arts testing in New York ...

We wrap up our list of common core multiplication strategies for 3rd and 4th graders with a simple multiplicative comparison, i.e. when a figure is represented in terms of another figure.